Description: A white marble funerary stele, cut in one piece, in the form of a pyramid surmounting a rectangular base (w: 0.95 × h: 0.50 × d: 0.50); all four sides of the pyramid and of the base are cut as panels within moulding. The top of the pyramid is broken away, but there are traces of a hole which would have held an insertion at the apex.

Text: Line 1 is inscribed on the front panel of the pyramid, lines 2-3 within the front panel of the base.

Letters: 0.034-0.045; clear cut and irregular; apostrophes in lines 3 and 6.

Date: Late fifth century. (prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village: reused supporting a pillar of a verandah, in a house subsequently demolished.

Original location: Unknown.

Last recorded location: Museum (1994)

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

He did not die, nor did he see the stream of Acheron, but in Olympus Asklepiodotos is among the stars—he who also built many splendid things for his motherland [------]

German translation

Translation source: Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998

Asklepiodotos ist nicht gestorben und hat den Fluss des Acheron nicht gesehen, sondern er ist im Olymp und wird mit den Sternen im umlauf gedreht, er, der Bauten errichtet und seine Amme (der Stadt) viele (Wohltaten erwiesen) hat . . .

Commentary

See also 11.68.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)

Fig. 3. Left side (M. Roueché, 2004)

Fig. 4. Right side (Roueché, 2004)

Fig. 5. Top (M. Roueché, 2004)