Description: A white marble statue base shaft without moulding (w: 0.44 × h: 1.04 × d: 0.45); complete, but worn along the upper edge, and pierced for later use as a well-head.
Text: Inscribed on the face; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.
Letters: lines 1-2, 0.025; lines 3-5, 0.022
Date: A.D. 253-260 . (reign)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village: reused upright to serve as a wellhead, just north east of the Theatre.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1980).
Apparatus
The earlier copies show no significant variant readings.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
[Julia Corne?]lia Salonina Augusta. The most splendid city of the Aphrodisians (scil. put up her statue).
Bibliography
Transcription: Loew, 1841; Waddington, 1850; Reichel, 1893 R.I.25; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition
Publication: Franz, 1847, b.6 ; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870, 1625; MAMA 8 453; Roueché, 1981, 1, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1982.357 ; AE 1981.765; Roueché, ALA, 2, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 210 , ALA 2004 2, Smith, 2006 H.31 (listed), IAph2007 11.62.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 3. Upper part (M. Roueché, 1975)
Fig. 4. Reichel (1893): I.25