Description: Upper part of the shaft of a blue-white marble column (diam. across the top 0.42).
Text: Inscribed in an area which is worn or broken away.
Letters: Capitals with restrained seriphs; 0.025
Date: Hadrianic 117/138 CE (archaeological context, lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora: the southern end of the West Portico.
Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court, West portico (?)
Last recorded location: Museum
Translation
Diogenes son of Leon the son of Hieron the son of Diogenes (gave) the six columns with ?tori and capitals from his own money for the People
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 84.64
Publication: IAph2007 5.3, Wilson, 2016 8.8-13 (description)
Images
Fig. 1. Column (M. Roueché, 1985)
Fig. 2. Text (M. Roueché, 1985)