Description: Rectangular white marble panel (w: 0.46 × h: 0.33 × d: 0.25) cut down from a larger one, originally surrounded by a moulded tabula ansata with elaborate handles, now largely lost.

Text: Inscribed on a recessed panel within a simple moulding (die, w: 0.32 × h: 0.21) whose badly worn face may have been deliberately damaged; lines 1 and 2 on the upper and 10 on the lower moulding, lines 3-9 within the panel.

Letters: 0.02

Date: Perhaps second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, North-East: stray find near Çay house

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1966)

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

With Good Fortune. For the goddess Ourania, visibly present, ?Galeos, son of Zenas, acrobat, [---]tes, prepared the kamara at his own expense in the time of Attalos son of Adrastos [ . . .

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