Description: A white marble columnar statue base shaft (approx h: 1.30 × diam: 0.55), broken in two.
Text: Inscribed on the face: the surface is chipped (as it already was in 1904) at the upper left corner of the inscription.
Letters: Av. 0.03; slightly elongated; decorative serifs.
Date: A.D. 383-386. (prosopography, titulature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, North portico; 'Façade' (Boulanger). At the north side of the east court of the baths, next to 5.217.
Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, North portico
Last recorded location: Findspot
Apparatus
7: The cross, faintly cut on the base below the inscription, was first observed by the Roberts; it is not certainly associated with the text.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
The Carians set up in their own metropolis the (scil. statue of ) the eternal Augusta, most dear to God, Aelia Flavia Flacilla, the mistress of the inhabited world.
Bibliography
Transcription: Gaudin, 1904 104 (both parts), whence Boulanger, notebooks A, 41, 3 J. and L. Robert, 1946 Notebook 40 (1946) (lower part) New York University expedition (both parts)
Publication: Reinach, 1906 30 ,whence Grégoire, IGC, 1922 280 , ILS 9466 ; Robert, Hellenica IV 14 and plate v; Roueché, ALA 23 and Plate vi, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 659 , LSA 185 ALA 2004 23; Smith, 2007 B 30 (description); IAph2007 5.216.
Images
Fig. 1. Upper part (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 2. Upper part (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 3. Lower part (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 4. Lower part (Lenaghan, 1994)
Fig. 5. Top of base (Lenaghan, 1994)
Fig. 6. Top of base (Lenaghan, 1994)