Description: a. A white marble statue base capital, for a columnar base, and b. the white marble columnar shaft of a statue base with simple moulding above and below (h: 1.16 × diam: 0.53). The moulding is cut into on both sides, as is the shaft itself on one side, as if it had served as a support for a balustrade (or perhaps for re-use in the defence wall). The moulding is half smoothed, and half left rough. A round plinth, on which this stone probably stood, is apparently in its original position, against the west portico, just south of 8.410 and 8.406. The statue also survives.

Text: Inscribed, line 1 on a simple column capital, at the top of the drum; lines 2-13 on the shaft, but the inscription is not centred in respect of the moulding.

Letters: Elongated and elegant, except for the last word in line 2, which has been inserted in a rasura, and is clumsily cut; line 1, 0.03; lines 2-3, 0.025; lines 3-7, 9 ff., 0.03; 1. 8, 0.035; Φ, 0.05; scroll for abbreviation.

Date: A.D. 361/363 (reign)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Tetrastoon: re-used in the northern stretch of the seventh-century Byzantine defence wall which blocks off the east end of the Theatre.

Original location: Tetrastoon, West portico.

Last recorded location: Museum (1983).

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

To Good Fortune. Antonius Tatianos, clarissimus praeses, having built all the work of the tetrastoon that can be seen from the foundations, and all the surrounding decoration, for the metropolis, (scil. set up this statue) of Flavius Claudius <Julianus> `Theodosius´ , the eternal and most pious Augustus.

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