Description: Two fragments of a white marble panel, in the shape of a tabula ansata. a: The drawing shows two joining fragments from the left side, (together w: 0.16 × h: 0.155), broken to right. b: right side fragment, complete above, below and to right (w: 0.305 × h: 0.17 × d: 0.06). There are grooves cut at the right side for clamps, perhaps for re-use; there is a good deal of cement on the face.
Text: Inscribed on the face. Guidelines are visible above and below each line; the alignment is poor.
Letters: a: 0.019. b: lightly cut and distinctive, first -second century CE, 0.015, alpha 0.019, rho 0.022. Dots for stops.
Date: First -second century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: a. Hadrianic Baths, Aleipterion: ‘Au S(ud)-O(uest) de la g(ran)de salle de l’aleipt(erion), dans l’établissement de la voie’; b. a stray find in 1981.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: a. Findspot (1913); b: in Museum (1981).
Apparatus
Underlined letters reported by Boulanger
The restoration is based on the parallel text 2.708
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
(scil. The statue of) Antonius Antiochos, her father, set up by Antonia Festa according to the instructions in the will of Asconius Demetriοs her grandfather.
Bibliography
Transcription: a: Boulanger, notebooks, 16 October 1913, A, 71, 8, whence B, 37, no. 8; b: New York University expedition 81.155
Publication: Smith, 2006 H.59 (listed).
Images
Fig. 1. a: Boulanger, Notebook A, p. 71
Fig. 2. a: Boulanger, Notebook B, p. 36-37
Fig. 3. b: Face (M. Roueché, 1981)
Fig. 4. b: View (Reynolds, 1982)