Description: White marble statue base shaft with well cut moulded panels on three sides (w: 0.42 × h: 1.13 × d: 0.40). The top has a square cutting in centre; the text must have begun on an upper feature.
Text: Inscribed on the face within the panel (w: 0.26 × h: 0.97).
Letters: Standard forms; ave 0.025, Φ 0.03 ; apices slanting down from left to right over initial Ι in line 5, Υ and Ι in line 6, and from right to left above Ρ in line 5.
Date: Second to third century CE. (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, South-west: in a field wall west of the Hadrianic baths, roughly midway between the baths and the city wall
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1988)
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché
[By the decree? of the Council and] the People and of the chrysophoroi, (scil. honours for) Iulius Aurelius Ktesias, son of Ktesias, grandson of Neiketas, of Equestrian rank, of most excellent memory.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 88.8, I-41, Walls 18.
Publication: Smith, 2006 H.121 (listed)
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1988)
Fig. 2. Top and face, in situ (M. Roueché, 1983)
Fig. 3. View, in situ (M. Roueché, 1983)