Description: A white marble columnar statue base shaft with moulding at top and bottom (1.12, diam. 0.48); there is a channel (0.095) down one side from just below the upper moulding to the bottom, and a clamp hole cut in the lower moulding approximately opposite it.
Text: Inscribed on two sides with almost identical texts each within a raised tabella ansata.
Letters: 0.02-0.022.
Date: First century CE possibly Julio-Claudian (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, South-west: Gaudin described i as on a column found in a vineyard near the baths, but ii as being on a sarcophagus in a vineyard outside the walls. Found in 1988 in a field wall west of the Hadrianic Baths.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1988)
Apparatus
i.3: ΠΕΡΙΝΓΑΝ Reinach
Translation
The People honoured Atimetos Petingas son of Charidemos, who became our citizen as well, and lived in good order.
Bibliography
Transcription: Gaudin, 1904, 61, 64; New York University expedition 88.6, SBI 39
Publication: Reinach, 1906 i: 41, ii: 42 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 432, 433 , Smith, 2006 H.78 (listed): IAph2007 11.404.
Images
Fig. 1. Face i. (M. Roueché, 1988)
Fig. 2. Face ii. (Lenaghan, 1993)