Description: Upper part of a simple white marble statue base shaft without moulding (w: 0.455 × h: 0.52 × d: 0.42).
Text: Inscribed on the face; the text must have begun on an upper feature.
Letters: Standard third century forms, 0.025-0.03. There are apices over initial aspirated vowels, including the initial Α of ἁπάσης (l. 9).
Date: Mid third century. (lettering, titulature, language)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Basilica: Loose find in a field wall west of Basilica.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Museum.
English translation
Translation source: Roueché, 1996
[So-and-so honoured] Publius Aelius Septimius Mannus, the clarissimus, governor (praeses), consular, distinguished, brave, pure, generous, having achieved all virtue, his/its benefactor [---]
French translation
Translation source: AE
(---) a fait la dedicace de son bienfaiteur, Publius Alius Septimius Mannus, le clarissime gouverneur, de rang consulaire, illustre, brave, intègre, généreux, pourvu de toute vertu - - -
Commentary
P. Aelius Septimius Mannus: PIR S 0466, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/883
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 88.24, SBI 87
Publication: Roueché, 1996 231 , whence AE 1996.1481, SEG 46.1394 ; ALA 2004 253, Smith, 2006 H.40 (listed); IAph2007 6.103.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1988)
Fig. 2. Top of block (Lenaghan, 1993)