Description: White marble relief panels from a monumental public tomb, with sculpted figures; 1.85; width of panels 0.75–1.30. The maximum depth of the panels is 0.40-0.50.
Text: Inscribed on the face next to the figures. Numbers for fitting the blocks survive for group A (0.02-0.03) normally on the upper face of the blocks, but in some cases on the face.
Letters: A: 0.02-0.03, lightly engraved. B: 0.04-0.05
Date: Late first century CE (career, sculpture, lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Water Channel area
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum, reassembled (1989)
Translation
(A): Courage, Zoilos, Honour, The People, Zoilos, The City
(B-D): 7: Eternity. 8. Memory. 9. Minos 10. Zoilos. 13. Virtue. 14. Faith
Bibliography
Transcription: Giuliano, 1958 nos 2, 3 5 and 7; New York University expedition over several years, with further fragments: 1, 61.61; 4, 61.62; 8, 77.147; 9 found 1984; 12, 66.234. 13, 64.242; 14 found 1989
Publication: Reynolds, 1979b (no.7); Reynolds, 1982 34 whence BE 1983.391 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 895 ; IAph2007 11.212. Republished, with the whole monument, by Smith, 1993 .
Images
Fig. 1. 9, Face (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 2. 8, Face (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 3. 14, Face (M. Roueché, 1989)
Fig. 4. 14, Face (M. Roueché, 1989)