Description: Seven columns of blue marble, mostly broken at both ends. i, complete, h: 2.14 × diam: 0.54; ii, broken at both ends, h: 1.42 × diam: 0.305; iii, broken at both ends, h: 1.26 × diam: 0.315; others all diam: 0.29-0.30. All showed traces of white plaster, apparently applied to form a panel.
Text: Painted in red on the plaster within a painted square. As in 8.408 and 8.268, there seem to be several layers of plaster and of script. Decipherment is made more difficult by the condition of the surface after re-use in the wall On only three of the columns could anything of substance be discerned: the readings are fragmentary and unsatisfactory.
Letters: i.a: 0.03; 1.b: 0.04. ii: 0.04-0.05. iii: 0.045-0.05
Date: Fifth to sixth centuries CE (terminology)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Tetrastoon: reused in the Byzantine defence wall built across the east side of the Theatre, in the stretch blocking the north parodos. There is no indication of original provenance; but we know that materials for this wall were brought from as far away as the Sebasteion complex
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: On site.
Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché
(i.a): . . . ?for] the magnificentissimus [ . . .] Many years!. (ii.a): Many years [ for . . . . (iii.b): . . . ] God has conveyed you well. Many years!
Transcription: New York University expedition during dismantling of the defence wall in 1976
Publication: Roueché, ALA 77 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 815, 816, 817, 818, 819, 815, 816, 820, 821 , ALA 2004 77, IAph2007 8.508.
Fig. 1. i. (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 2. i. (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 3. i. (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 4. Fragments (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 5. ii. (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 6. iii. (M. Roueché, 1976)