Description: A white marble altar-stele with moulding above and below (w: 0.37 × h: 0.84 × d: 0.28). For a full description see Kontokosta (2008).
Text: Inscribed on the face above a relief is of a heavily armed gladiator, with short sword in right hand, long shield in left, and a helmet which obscures his face, advancing right.
Letters: Standard forms; 0.02
Date: Second to third centuries CE (content, lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part), 'im Felde vor der Südmauer' (Reichel)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1893)
Apparatus
ΜΑΡΓΑΡΕΙΤΗΣ Kubitschek, June 1893
Bibliography
Transcription: Doublet and Deschamps, 1887; Reichel, 1893 R.I.23, Kubitschek, June 1893, K.III.63, endpaper.
Publication: Doublet and Deschamps, 1890 12 ; Kubitschek and Reichel, 1893 2 , whence Robert, Gladiateurs 161 ; Robert, Hellenica V 16, from Reichel's notebook, Roueché, PPA 32 , whence , PHI PPAphr 32; IAph2007 10.102, Kontokosta, 2008 16, whence SEG 58.1183.
Images
Fig. 1. Reichel notebook, I.23
Fig. 2. Kubitschek notebook, III, 63