Description: Plain white marble statue base shaft (w: 0.42 × h: 0.98 × d: 0.39), whose bottom surface has been hollowed out to form a basin with a drain hole. Top not visible.
Text: Inscribed on the face, which is chipped.
Letters: 0.036; diairetic dots on the initial Ι; stop for abbreviation after ΚΛ in line 1; possible stops to either side of text in line 7.
Date: Late second century CE (lettering, nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village: re-used upside down as a well-head
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1978)
Translation
Tiberius Claudius Apollonios Aurelianos high priest and priest for life of the god Dionysos (scil. set this up).
Bibliography
Transcription: Picenini, 1705 f18, no. 30, whence Sherard, 1705 29; Kubitschek, June 1893 partial squeeze, Abklatsch 8; no notebook entry; Gaudin, 1904 66; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2784 ; Reinach, 1906 36 (mention); MAMA 8 454 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 143 ; IAph2007 11.51.
Images
Fig. 1. Base (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 2. Base (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 3. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.12r, at British Library