Description: White marble statue base capital (w: 0.80 × h: 0.33 × d: 0.74).
Text: Inscribed on one fascia (0.52 0.55)
Letters: Standard second to third century forms; 0.03
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Tetrastoon: West portico, south, topsoil
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Translation
The Council and the People [honoured so and so ------]
Commentary
One of three very similar such plinths, all found during excavation of the Theatre (8.252, 8.253, 8.254)
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 72.160a, SBI 60
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1972)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)