Description: A rectangular white marble statue base shaft (w: 0.57 × h: 1.20 × d: 0.55) with panels within moulded edges on all four sides; the upper left corner of face i., including most of text ii., has been broken off, but survives.
Text: i: Inscribed on the front panel; the text must have begun on a crowning feature now lost. ii: On the opposite face, upside down to i, is a gameboard (w: 0.97 × h: 0.47, carefully cut, with circles 0.03, central rosettes in circles 0.085); the text is on the lower moulding, which is now broken away.
Letters: i. 0.025; the final letters of lines 4, 8 are cut on the moulding. ii. Av. 0.025, 0, 0.005, first Φ, 0.027; irregular; scroll and letter above line for abbreviations.
Date: i. Probably late second to third centuries C.E.; ii. Late fifth/sixth century. (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths: Tetrastyle Court, at the northern entrance; 'Thermes, porte d'accès côté du Temple. Dégagé par les travaux' (Gaudin)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Apparatus
ii.1: The first cross, which is very abraded, was not read by Reinach.
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
(i): [The city honoured?] Marcus Antonius Popillius Andronikos Flavianos, son of Agelaos the high priest, descendant of high priests of Asia and of high priests (i.e. at Aphrodisias), cousin of senators and consulars, and (i.e. descendant) of those who joined in the foundation of the city, the chief of the temple-builders of the goddess Aphrodite and a benefactor.
(ii): Under Flavius Photios, scholasticus.
Commentary
ii. This is one of three surviving gameboards given by Flavius Photios; see also 5.14, 5.15
Bibliography
Transcription: Gaudin, 1904, complete, i: 111, ii: 109; Boulanger, notebooks A, 45, no.8 (i only); New York University expedition in two fragments
Publication: (i): Reinach, 1906 71 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 71 , Smith, 2006 H.58 (listed), Smith, 2007 B 1;(ii): Reinach, 1906 213 , whence Grégoire, IGC, 1922 264 ; cited by Roueché, 1979, on 1 , whence SEG 39.1071 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1980.473 ; Roueché, ALA 68 and plate xvii, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 622 ; ALA 2004 68, Roueché, 2007 2.i ;(i and ii): IAph2007 5.10.
Images
Fig. 1. Face i. (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 2. Face i. (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 3. Face i. (Lenaghan, 1993)
Fig. 4. Face i. (M. Roueché, 1994)
Fig. 5. Face ii. main block (M. Roueché, 1991)
Fig. 6. Face ii. fragment (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 7. Boulanger, A, 45, no.8