Description: A white marble statue base shaft with moulded panels (w: 0.40 × h: 0.99 × d: 0.37), chipped on all edges; there is a hole on the top for the attachment of a crowning feature

Text: Inscribed on the face. Line 1 is inscribed on the upper moulding, but was not seen by earlier copyists; the text must have begun on the crowning feature.

Letters: Standard second-third-century forms, 0.02. Apices: on Η, line 9.

Date: 226 CE (contests)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village: in the ruins of a house north east of the Tetrapylon, slightly west of the Water Channel area

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Translation

[- -], who won the boys' running-race in the contest celebrated for the fifteenth four-year occurrence of the Aphrodeisiea Philemoniea; the contest-presidents were the neopoioi led by Julius Aurelius Charidemos, son of Zelos, high-priest. Julius Krateros, his father, undertook the erection of the statue.

French translation

Translation source: Puech, 2002

(Statue de) . . . couronné pours la course du stade dans la catégorie des enfants, lors du concours qui c'est tenu pour la quinzième tétraétèrie des Aphrodisieia Philemonieia: les agonothètes étaient les néopes présidés par Iulius Aurelius Charidèmos, fils du grand-prêtre Zèlos; La statue (du vainqueur) a été élevée par les soins de Iulius Cratèros, son père.

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