Description: Block (w: 0.91 × h: 0.37 × d: 0.46), damaged above, down the left hand side and at the lower left corner, with holes on the top for the attachment of an upper feature, inscribed on one face. The block looks like a building block and, if that is right, what stood above it may well have been another block (rather than an architectural element) both being part of the wall of the tomb implied in the text.

Text: Inscribed on the face. The inscription began on the wall or feature above, and we have no means of telling just how much of it is lost.

Letters: Probably middle to third quarter of the first century CE: 0.013

Date: 50-75 CE (lettering, prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village: during demolition of a modern house near the Theatre.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1981)

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

[------ because of?] his generosity to the People, behaving with goodwill for the common interest in all things, having continuously provided everything that was deserving of honour. In return for which the People gave and decreed for him burial and funerary rites in the city, in the public ergasteria opposite the Council-chamber, returning his goodwill as stated in the decree. Now, when the Council was discussing these matters, Adrastos came forward, being on this occasion too concerned for his native city and, unwilling that the income of the city should be reduced, but preferring what was helpful for the city, thought it proper that the place of the tomb should be relocated in ?his own ergasteria; it was decided by the Council and the People that, while the original decree of a tomb should stand, he should be allowed to prepare the Heroon in his own ergasteria(?).

English translation

Translation source: Jones, 1999

(from line 3): Wherefore the people gave and voted to him burial and a funeral in the city in the public factories (ergasteria) opposite the council-house (bouleuterion), repaying him for his goodwill as the resolution declares; but now, when the council was in session, Adrastos came forward and, being a lover of his ancestral city in this too, and not wishing the revenues of the city to be diminished, but desiring the benefit of the city, he requested that the place of his burial be changed to . . . factories; it was resolved by the council and the people that the first resolution concerning his burial be observed, according to which it was it resolved that he be entrusted with building the tomb (heroon) in the ... factories

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