Description: White marble statue base shaft, with moulded panels on all four sides (w: 1.35 × h: 0.60 × d: 0.54); broken above, and at the right. Standing on a plinth.
Text: Inscribed within front panel.
Letters: 0.035; simple, elongated and iregular; lunate sigma, epsilon, cursive omega.
Date: First half of the fourth century CE (lettering, titulature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, West portico: 'angle N(ord)-E(st) du pilier N(ord) ' (notebook A); 'devant la sixième colonne du portique O(uest) section N(ord) ' (Notebook B).
Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, West portico
Last recorded location: Findspot; standing at the west side of the East court (1994).
Translation
[The city has honoured so-and-so?] the most splendid comes, friend of the emperors, saviour of the provinces, founder and restorer also of this city.
Bibliography
Transcription: Mendel, 1905; Boulanger, notebooksA, 55, no. 10, whence B, 5, no. 5; New York University expedition 1972
Publication: Roueché, ALA 14 , whence AE 1990.956, McCabe, PHI, 1996 664 , LSA 187, ALA 2004 14; Smith, 2007 B 39 (description); IAph2007 5.215.
Images
Fig. 1. Front face (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 2. Front face (M. Roueché, 1975)
Fig. 3. Front view (Lenaghan, 1994)
Fig. 4. Back of base (Lenaghan, 1994)
Fig. 5. Transcription by Boulanger: Notebook A, page 55
Fig. 6. Transcription by Boulanger: Notebook Β, page 5