Description: White marble statue base capital and shaft (w: 1.10 × h: 0.84 × d: 0.84) with moulding on three sides.
Text: Inscribed on the moulding of the capital (lines 1, 2) and within the front panel (lines 3-12).
Letters: 0.02; apex for abbreviation mark.
Date: A.D. 253-301. (prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora, Agora Gate/Propylon: re-used in the collecting pool. .
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1983).
English translation
Translation source: Chaniotis, 2024
The fatherland, with good fortune, (set up the statue of) T(itus) Opp(ius) Aelianus Asklepiodotos, the most splendid consular, governor of Karia and Phrygia, proconsul and corrector of Asia, builder and saviour also of his own homeland; Tib(erius) Cl(audius) Markianos the first archon (scil. set this up/was in charge).
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
The Homeland, With Good Fortune, (scil. set up the statue of) T(itus) Opp(ius) Aelianus Asklepiodotos, the most splendid consular, governor of Caria and Phrygia, proconsul and corrector of Asia, founder and saviour also of his own homeland; Tib(erius) Cl(audius) Markianos the first archon (was in charge).
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 77.135
Publication: Roueché, 1981 6 , whence SEG 31.910 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1982.357 , AE 1981.770 , AE 1982.893 ; Roueché, ALA 7 whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 311 , LSA 195; ALA 2004 7, Smith, 2006 H.43 (listed), IAph2007 4.309; Chaniotis, 2024 16.
Images
Fig. 1. View in situ (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 2. Front face (M. Roueché, 1983)
Fig. 3. Front view (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1977)