Description: White marble statue base shaft: w: 0.62 × h: 0.69 × d: 2.21

Text: Inscribed on two adjoining faces; a to the right, b to left, on a surface which has been erased.

Letters: Standard forms; 0.02.

Date: A.D. 102-116 (titulature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora, Agora Gate/Propylon: Trench 5; reused in a wall

Original location: Place of Palms/South Agora, Agora Gate/Propylon

Last recorded location: Findspot

English translation

Translation source: Chaniotis, 2024

(a): To the first mother Aphrodite and the People, Imperator Caesar Nerva Trajan Augustus restored (this) from the will of Adrastos Grypos, son of Pereitas, through Kallikrates Grypos, son of Pereitas, priest, supervisor of the work.

(b): The People prepared and restored the statues of "the Cyclops", thrown down, shattered and made useless by an earthquake, at their own expense.

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

(a): For the first mother Aphrodite and the People. Imperator Caesar Nerva Trajanus Augustus restored (this) from the will of Adrastos son of Pereitas ? Grypos, through Kallikrates son of Pereitas Grypos, priest, supervisor of the work.

(b): The People prepared and restored the statues of the Cyclops, thrown down, shattered and made useless by an earthquake, at its own expense.

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1982

(a): To the first mother Aphrodite and the Demos. Imperator Caesar Nerva Trajanus Augustus, Germanicus, Dacicus, restored (this) with the legacy from Adrastos Grypus son of Pereitas, through Callicrates Grypus son of Pereitas, priest, superintendent of the work.

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