[c. 13] ἔρνοϲ | [c. 12]Λ̣ΗΟΣ |
[c. 12]ΙΝΟΡΑϹ | [.. ? ..] |
(5) [.. ? ..] | Λ̣[..]ϹΗϹ Ἀ̣φροδ[ίτη]ν̣ |
ἐνφύλιον δῆριν ὀλεϲί|πτολιν ἐξελάϲαντα ((leaf))
Description: Two joining fragments of a white marble columnar statue base shaft ( h: 1.35 × diam: 0.53); the substantial part found standing on a plinth (H. 0.33) cut down from the socle of a fluted column; the upper left corner fragment found separately.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.03-0.04, clear, irregular.
Date: Fifth century. (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Tetrastoon: main part found standing against a column of the West portico, north, immediately south of 8.410; the fragment found in the same area (NPS I) at 0.20 above the paving.
Original location: Tetrastoon, West portico
Last recorded location: Findspot and Museum.
Translation source: ALA 2004
[---] offspring [---] Aphrodite, (scil. he who) drove out city-destroying civil strife.
Translation source: Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998
. . . der den Zwist unter den Bürgern, den stadtverderbenden, ausgetrieben hat.
Transcription: New York University expedition, main part 1972, fragment 73.206
Publication: Roueché, ALA 64 and plate xvi, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 728 , Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998 02/09/26 , LSA 228; ALA 2004 64, IAph2007 8.407.