Description: White marble statue base shaft with simple moulding above and below w: 0.72 × h: 0.45 × d: 0.555.
Text: Inscribed on the upper moulding (line 1), and on the face which has been badly damaged above
Letters: 0.035 - 0.04; simple lettering, not very deeply cut
Date: 89-96 CE (reign, titulature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre, stage, Porta Regia North.
Original location: Theatre
Last recorded location: Museum
Apparatus
1: Above line 1, one inscribed line is wholly lost
1-2: The loss here appears to be the result of damage, not erasure
6: The final name is presumably miscut for Ἀδράστου
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
[The Emperor Caesar] Domitian Augustus Germanicus, unconquered. The people dedicated (scil. his statue); Menippos son of Menippos, natural son of Adra[s]tos, was responsible (scil. for its production).
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 71.336, SBI 71
Publication: Reynolds, 1991 p.21.b (mention); Smith, 2006 H.34 (listed)
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 2. View showing left side (M. Roueché, 1978)