Description: Three white marble orthostats.

Text: Inscribed on a surface roughly smoothed for the purpose, which is now chipped, particularly at the edges of the stones.

Letters: Early third century; 0.055. Erasure in line 1.

Date: 212-217 CE (reign, titulature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre: part of the veneering of the wall surrounding the Orchestra, after it had been deepened, on the west side, approximately opposite the centre of the stage, and below the tribunal.

Original location: Theatre: Orchestra

Last recorded location: Findspot

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1991

To the goddess Aphrodite and to Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus and his whole household and family, also to his very dear country; Marcus Aurelius Menestheus Skopas (i.e. son of Menestheus, grandson of Menestheus, great grandson of Menestheus) the son of Apollonios (scil. gave and dedicated) as he promised.

French translation

Translation source: AE

A la déesse Aphrodite et à l'empereur César Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Felix Augustus et à toute sa maison et sa familie et à sa très chère patrie, Marcus Aurelius Menestheus Scopas, fils de Menestheus, petit-fils de Menestheus, arrière-petit-fils de Menestheus, lui-meme fils d'Apollonios, (a consacré) le remplacement du placage du podium du théâtre comme il l'avait promis.

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