Description: White marble frieze block (w: 0.71 × h: 0.345 × d: 0.56) originally from a composite frieze, bearing i. It was later re-used; the moulding above the fasciae was cut away, and the block cut down to create a statue base moulded on three sides, chipped along the upper moulding.
Text: i. Inscribed on two opposite faces. ii: inscribed, upside down to i, on a prepared face (w: 0.665 × h: 0.145).
Letters: i: perhaps Augustan, 0.045; the sigma in line 1 has been corrected. ii: probably second to third century CE, ave. 0.02; line 1 on moulding; guidelines.
Date: i: First to second centuries C.E.; ii. Second to third centuries CE (lettering, context)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Bouleuterion/Odeon, East Area: E. Odeon 73c, at -1.30, East path
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Apparatus
i: It is very probable that this block came at the end of the text, judging by the layout of similar inscriptions.
ii.1: The restoration is based on the parallel text 5.124
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
(i): [---] . . . the architrave and] the decoration on it [ . . . ? for the People].
(ii): [Antonia Festa] (scil. set up the statue of) Asconia her mother, according to the instruction in the will of her grandfather, Asconius Demetrius.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 73.378.
Publication: Smith, 2006 H.233 (listed)
Images
Fig. 1. i: Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1973)
Fig. 2. ii: Face (M. Roueché, 1981)