Description: A bluish marble columnar statue base shaft, broken below (h: 1.45 × diam: 0.55).

Text: Inscribed on the face, carefully laid out.

Letters: 0.05-0.06; lines 9, 4, 0.065; elongated and elegantly cut.

Date: A.D. 385/388. (prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora: West Portico: 'Galerie de l'Est—Partie S(ud) ' (Boulanger); lying in the southern stretch.

Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court

Last recorded location: Findspot

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

The Council, in exchange for many benefits, set up this (scil. statue of) Menandros, who was affable to all, and who, making a welcome repayment for his rearing to the great city, moderated (scil. her) tribute, and established light for all.

German translation

Translation source: Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998

Der Rat hat diesen Mann hier, den Menandros, der zu allen freundlich war, aufgestellt, Dank erwidernd seinen vielen guten Taten, der unserer grossen Stadt Dank für das Grossziehen erstattend die Steuern ermässigt und für alle Licht geschaffen hat.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1972)

Fig. 2. Right side (M. Roueché, 1972)

Fig. 3. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)

Fig. 4. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci)

Fig. 5. Boulanger, Notebook A, page 49

Fig. 6. Boulanger, Notebook B, 10-11