Description: Fragment of a marble base, broken on the right side and at the back (w: 0.19 × h: 0.085 × d: 0.23) and supporting a small statue of an eagle. From the statuette only the two claws and the lower part of the body are preserved, on the left side of the base; another attribute of Zeus (double axe?) may have stood on the lost right side.
Text: Inscribed on the face, w: 0.155 × h: 0.07.
Letters: 0.01-0.014
Date: First-second century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Bouleuterion/Odeon: in the Odeon store, rear chamber 6; perhaps from excavations in 1961-64
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Apparatus
1: The line may have ended with a short patronymic Chaniotis, 2004
English translation
Translation source: Chaniotis, 2004
Meleagros, the smith, to Zeus Nineudios in fulfillment of a vow.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition I 99.002
Publication: Chaniotis, 2004 11, whence SEG 54.1037, Chaniotis, EBGR 2007.43; Chaniotis, 2010a 22, whence Chaniotis, EBGR 2013.39.
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