Description: White marble statue base capital (w: 0.75 × h: 0.32 × d: 0.71).
Text: Inscribed on lower fascia (w: 0.47 × h: 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 capitals, all found during excavation of the Theatre (8.252, 8.253, 8.254)
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 72.160c; SBI 127
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1972)
Fig. 2. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1972)