Description: Long white marble votive relief damaged at all edges (w: 0.55 × h: 0.16 × d: 0.21) carrying a tabella ansata in relief (w: 0.41 × h: 0.10); within this, to left, reliefs of a palm branch, a wreath with taenia, and apparently two ears.
Text: Inscribed on the face to the right of the relief, all within the tabella.
Letters: 0.01-0.015; no serifs; diamond-shaped theta. Uneven in height and slightly uneven in alignment.
Date: First to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: re-used in a modern house over the Theatre.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
Apparatus
It is not clear whether there was ever a line above the surviving text
1: At end, ι̣κ̣ε̣, or ιι̣ω̣
2: ΣΙΖΙΑΝΗ is clear: apparently an epithet of Athena or just possibly the name of the dedicator.
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
[---] a vow to Athena Siziane.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 67.466.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)