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 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. A.i (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1974)
Fig. 2. A.ii (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1967)
Fig. 3. A.iii (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1967)
Fig. 4. A.iv (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1967)
Fig. 5. 8, Face (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 6. 9, Face (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 7. 12, Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1991)
Fig. 8. 13, Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1991)
Fig. 9. 14, Face (M. Roueché, 1989)
Fig. 10. 14, Face (M. Roueché, 1989)