Description: Piece from a stele with back, top but no other edges surviving (w: 0.35 × h: 0.27 × d: 0.09). There is some indication of a dowel hole in the left side at the level of line 1.
Text: Inscribed on the face; the text must have begun on an upper feature.
Letters: Deeply cut but poorly formed; lines 1, 4, 0.035; lines 2, 3, 0.03; lunate sigma, omega.
Date: ?Third-fourth century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
. . . any offender will find that neither] is the earth to be walked upon [ nor the sea navigable nor shall he have] the blessing [? of children . . .
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 73.3
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1973)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)