Description: White marble columnar altar; the diameter of the top surface, which is slightly oval, is 0.78 (north-south), 0.885 (west to east), to serve as a sundial
Text: Inscribed on the top surface; there is a hole where the gnomon may have stood.
Letters: Lunate.
Date: Fifth-sixth century. (context, lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Tetrastoon: standing with its base 0.55 below the present pavement level, and protruding above it.
Original location: Tetrastoon
Last recorded location: Findspot.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
(a) (along the winter solsitial curve): Winter.
(b) (along the summer solstitial curve): Summer.
(c) (along the equinoctial line): Equinoctial.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition
Publication: Pattenden, 1981 from transcription by Reynolds, whence SEG 31.931 ; Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1982.360 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 868 ; ALA 2004 249, IAph2007 8.409.
Images
Fig. 1. View (1974)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 3. View from east (M. Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 4. View from north (M. Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 5. Tetrastoon, view from south east (M. Roueché, 1975)
Fig. 6. Tetrastoon, view from north east (M. Roueché, 1975)