Description: Fragment from a white marble statue base capital (w: 0.60 × h: 0.22 × d: 0.76) with moulding on at least 3 sides. Reichel describes it as 'Pilasterkapitell', but the measurements do no bear this out.
Text: Inscribed on two fasciae of the moulding.
Letters: Standard second to third century forms; 0.02.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, South-west: 'Südmauer innen, im Felde'
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1893)
Translation
The Council and the People [ ? and ....] honoured with the finest [ honours ...]
Commentary
The opening formula of an honorific text.
Bibliography
Transcription: Reichel, 1893 R.I.40, Abklatsch 57;
Publication: Cormack, 1964 43 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 377 ; IAph2007 11.408.
Images
Fig. 1. Reichel I, 40