Description: White marble statue base with moulding (w: 1.48 × h: 0.40 × d: 0.90). The inscription must have begun on an upper feature, now lost, but fragments of the statuary have been found. There is a hole cut through the lower moulding for a water pipe.

Text: Inscribed on upper moulding which is chipped at right.

Letters: Elaborately serifed letters; line 1, 0.03-0.035; line 2, 0.0253; line 3, 0.02-0.025.

Date: Second century CE (lettering, archaeological context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, Tetrastyle Court, built into the wall of the pool with inscribed face towards the pool

Original location: Hadrianic Baths, Tetrastyle Court

Last recorded location: Findspot

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

[--- according to the] order (?testamentary disposition) [of (a donor whose name is lost)] set up the Herakles and the Triton and the L[---] at his own expense and the channelling and all the water for the Bath.

English translation

Translation source: Smith, 2007

. . . ](name not preserved) set up the Herakles and the Triton and the l[ion?] at his own expense, together with the pipes and the whole water(-supply) to the bath.

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