Description: White marble statue base with egg and dart moulding above on three sides (w: 0.61 × h: 0.64 × d: 0.59).
Text: Inscribed (i) on central and (ii) on face to the right.
Letters: i: irregular heights, ave. 0.04; ii, 0.03 - 0.035. Unusually for a sculptor's signature, the letters are not easily distinguishable from those on face ii.
Date: Mid second century CE (lettering, monument, group, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora, Pool, at the west end.
Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court: ?Caryatid portico
Last recorded location: Museum
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
(i): Claudia Melitine, wife of Tiberius Claudius Attalos Agatheinos, to the People.
(ii): Andronikos son of Musaios made (scil. the statue)
English translation
Translation source: Smith, 2007
(i): Klaudia Melitine, wife of Tiberius Attalos Agatheinos (set up the statue) to the demos. Andronikos son of Mousaios made (it).
Commentary
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 89.b, I-162
Publication: Smith, 2007 B 24 (description)
Images
Fig. 1. Face i (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1989)
Fig. 2. Face i (M. Roueché, 1989)
Fig. 3. Face i (M. Roueché, 1989)
Fig. 4. Face i (M. Roueché, 1991)
Fig. 5. Face ii (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1989)
Fig. 6. Face ii (M. Roueché, 1989)
Fig. 7. Face ii (M. Roueché, 1989)