Description: White marble statue base (w: 1.00 × h: 0.58 × d: 0.61); a lower moulding was later pared away.
Text: i: Inscribed on the face; ii punched on the short end
Letters: i: standard forms, 0.03; ii: irregular, 0.05
Date: First to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, North stretch: re-used face upwards in a bastion on the north side of the Stadium.
Original location: Basilica
Last recorded location: Museum (2009)
Apparatus
i.2: τὸν Τρωΐλον καὶ MAMA 8, IAph2007
i.3: [ΠΟΝ] καὶ τὸν Ἀχιλλέα MAMA 8; [τὸν ἵπ]πον κα̣ὶ τὸν Ἀχ̣ι̣λλ̣έα IAph2007 This line seems to have been less damaged when Reichel recorded it.
Apparatus
Smith and Hallett determined the correct layout of i; they argue that the reference to the horse, and the final verb, were
added, early, to the original text. The second text, ii, was only revealed when the base was removed from the wall.
English translation
Translation source: Smith and Hallett, 2015
(i): The Demos set up the Troilos and the horse and the Achilles.
(ii): Andronikos (or) Of, or belonging to, Andronikos
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
(i): The People (scil. set up the statue of) Troilos and the horse and Achilles.
Commentary
Bibliography
Transcription: i: Reichel, 1893, R.I.18; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition 09-66
Publication: i: MAMA 8 415 , whence Robert, Hellenica XIII 126-127, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1966.386 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 185 . IAph2007 12.10; i and ii: Smith, 2011 268 (description); Smith and Hallett, 2015 149-154(i), 172-174 (ii), whence SEG 65.950, AE 2015.1501
Images
Fig. 1. i: Face (M. Roueché, 2001)
Fig. 2. i: Reichel notebook I, 18