Description: Six fragments of a white marble statue base shaft inscribed on two faces. i. (w: 0.77 × h: 1.06 × d: 0.355) with moulding above and below which mostly survives on the left side, but has apparently been chipped away from the right. ii. was cut on the underside of the base (w: 0.77 × h: 0.355) with a simple stepped moulding above, and traces of the same below. The fragments have been damaged since they were first recorded.
Text: i. inscribed on the face; ii. inscribed later on the underside.
Letters: i. Second to third century; 0.04-0.045; ii. lines 1-2, 0.045-0.05; lines. 3-4, 0.05-0.055. Simple, lunate; scroll for abbreviation.
Date: i. 198-210 CE. ii: 388-392 CE (titulature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Bouleuterion/Odeon, on the Stage.
Original location: i: Unknown ii: Bouleuterion/Odeon
Last recorded location: Museum (M. Roueché, 2004).
Apparatus
ii.2: The stone has ΠΙ followed by a scroll as abbreviation mark; it is impossible to interpret this except by reading Ι as an error for Ρ, which might be explained if the cutter had confused the scroll with the bowl of the rho.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 2008b
(i): The People (honoured) Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus, Pius, Pertinax, Augustus, Arabicus, Adiabenicus, Parthicus Maximus.
(ii): Antonius Priscos, the clarissimus praeses. dedicated (scil. this) to the metropolis.
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
(i): The People (honoured) Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus, Pius, Pertinax, Augustus, Arabicus, Adiabenicus, Parthicus Maximus.
(ii): Antonius Priskos, clarissimus praeses. set [this?] up (scil. in) the metropolis.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition, Odeon 20, SBI 116
Publication: i: Roueché, ALA mention under 28, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 207 ; Smith, 2006 H.27 (listed); ii: Roueché, ALA 28, and plate viii, whence AE 1990.959, McCabe, PHI, 1996 634 , ALA 2004 28; i and ii: IAph2007 2.110; Reynolds, 2008b 9, whence SEG 58.1165, SEG 58.1166.
Images
Fig. 1. i: Fragment a (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 2. i. Fragment a (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 3. i. Fragment a (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 4. i: Fragment b (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 5. i. Fragment b (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 6. i. Fragment b (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 7. i. (left side) and ii. (upper part) (M. Roueché, 2001)
Fig. 8. ii. Upper edge fragment (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 9. ii. Upper edge fragment (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 10. ii. Upper edge fragments (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 11. ii. Upper edge fragment (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 12. ii. Lower part (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 13. ii. Lower part (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 14. ii. Fragment (C. Roueché, 2004)