Description: Two white marble frieze blocks: the first (0.685 long) bears the mark ΑΑ; the second (0.97) has [Β?]Α.
Text: Inscribed in 3 lines on the fascia. The text began on a third, missing, block to the left.
Letters: 0.026-0.027. Star for stop.
Date: Mid to late first century CE or a descendant. (prosopography, lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre: stage area
Original location: Theatre: stage, proskeneion frieze.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1989), restored north of 8.565, just south of porta regia.
Apparatus
2: δίκαιον omitted Reynolds, 1981b
Translation
[The Council and the People honoured Ti(berius) Clau]dius Diogenes, high-priest of Asia, and sebastophant, and contest-president[...] benefactor, just, lover of mankind, lover of the citizens, nomothete, twice gy[mnasiarch, also] having carried out all [the other offices] unsurpassably well.
Commentary
One of series of adjoining white marble cornice blocks, with moulding and water spouts in the form of lions' heads above, and a decoration of mutules on the underside,which make up the cornice, of the Doric order, above 8.1, the inscription of Zoilos, across the back of the Theatre stage. 8.23, 8.38, 8.39, 8.84, 8.86, 8.116, 8.117, 8.118
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition in 1971 (no catalogue numbers).
Publication: Reynolds, 1981b 4 , whence SEG 31.901 , AE 1982.890, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1982.356 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 296 , Smith, 2006 H.89 (listed); IAph2007 8.23.
Images
Fig. 1. b (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 2. Assembled, in situ (M. Roueché, 1989)