Description: A white marble columnar statue base shaft, broken above, and with the surface lost at the left edge of the text ( diam: 0.44).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.02 (omicron) -0.04; angular and irregular, similar to 11.515.
Date: Sixth century. (prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, South portico.
Original location: Hadrianic Baths.
Last recorded location: Findspot.
Apparatus
1-2: εὐ[ερ] | γέτην Reinach, 1906
9: ἀ[ξί]λαις Reinach, 1906 there appears to be a fault in the stone after the initial Α.
11: Reinach did not record the cross, which was probably not included on the squeeze.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
The never-to-be-forgotten benefactor, who, with baths and with command of the corn-supply, drove away plague and famine, Rhodopaios, lover of his country; the city, loving him, has adorned him with this second marble image, repaying him with worthy honours.
Bibliography
Transcription: Gaudin, 1904 90; Boulanger, notebooks A, 47, no.9; New York University expedition
Publication: Reinach, 1906 75 , whence Robert, Hellenica IV 127-128 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1949.178 ; Roueché, ALA 86 and plate xxii, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 671 , LSA 194; ALA 2004 86, Roueché, 2007 182 (discussed) ; Smith, 2007 B 41 (description); IAph2007 5.17.
Images
Fig. 1. Centre (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 2. Right side (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 3. Squeeze (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 4. Boulanger, Notebook A, page 47