Description: Block broken in two but now recomposed and substantially complete (w: 1.53 × h: 0.72 × d: 0.72).

Text: The inscription was cut in an especially prepared area, around which the unpolished surface survives and forms a frame. The first word of line 9 was cut in the margin; the stone here has been damaged since 1976. There may be the trace of an initial tau at the end of line 8..

Letters: Second--third century A.D.: 0.025; apices in lines 10, 11; circular stop in line 8.

Date: 238-244 C.E. (reign, lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre: North analemma: the lower half found in the north analemma, the upper fallen forward into the parodos. Since there is evidence of some repair to the analemma it cannot be quite excluded that the block was re-used there, but much more probably this was its original position.

Original location: Theatre: North analemma (?)

Last recorded location: Findspot

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1982

Imperator Caesar M. A[ntonius] Gordianus, Pius, Felix, Au[gustus], to Aurelius Epaphras, greetings.

Any decision about the laws of your native city that has been made by the reverend council of the Senate and those of the emperors who have been deified it would be proper for me too to preserve for your native city on the same terms. If, therefore, you/someone were to go to my friend Flavius Latronianus, who is prefect of my own native city, about the matters on which you wrote, and would explain to him the original tradition, he will arrange to remit the decision in the matter of Polydoros to the proper court. Farewell

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