Description: A white marble statue base shaft, now in at least 7 fragments, with panels within moulded edges on three sides; the back is lost (approx.w: 0.59 × h: 0.88 × d: 0.34).

Text: Inscribed on upper moulding (line 1) and face (lines 2ff.) of central panel. The last letters of lines 5 and 13 are cut on the moulding.

Letters: 0.025-0.0375; angular and irregular; similar to 5.17.

Date: Sixth century. (prosopography, titulature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, North-west: 'in a field 200 m north-west of the Temple' MAMA; just south of the path to the West Gate (NYU).

Original location: Unknown.

Last recorded location: Findspot; one fragment in Museum.

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

To Good Fortune. The magnificentissimus Rhodopaios, the lover of his country and defender of the people, the originator of the generous gift of the summer Olympian bath, and giver of corn as well as founder, renewer of pleasures that had been forgotten, the never-to-be-forgotten benefactor to us in everything, privately and public—the city (scil. has honoured him) adorning him with a statue for the third time

Commentary

For the other two honours for Rhodopaios, see 5.16 and 5.17 .

Images

Fig. 1. Upper left corner (M. Roueché, 1976)

Fig. 2. Upper right corner (M. Roueché, 1976)

Fig. 3. Left side, lines 6-13 (M. Roueché, 1976)

Fig. 4. Right side, lines 12-14 (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)

Fig. 5. Left side, lines 14-20 (M. Roueché, 1976)

Fig. 6. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.17r, at British Library