Description: A white marble altar-stele, with moulding above and below (w: 0.43 × h: 0.88 × d: 0.38). For a full description see Kontokosta (2008).
Text: Inscribed on the upper moulding, which is broken. On the face is a relief of a heavily armed gladiator, with a short sword in right hand, a long shield in the left, and a crested helmet, advancing to the right.
Letters: Lunate sigma and ?epsilon; 0.035.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (content, lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, North stretch: to the north of the north wall of the Stadium with 12.15, 12.13
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1893)
Commentary
Robert conjectured [The]rsites, followed by Roueché; but both Kubitschek and Reichel read a lunate epsilon.
Bibliography
Transcription: Reichel, 1893, R.I.21, Kubitschek, June 1893, K.III, endpaper
Publication: Kubitschek and Reichel, 1893, 2 (mention) , whence Robert, Gladiateurs 160 ; published from Reichel's notes by Robert, Hellenica V 93-5, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 924 ; Roueché, PPA 27 , whence PHI PPAphr 27, IAph2007 12.16; Kontokosta, 2008 15, whence SEG 58.1183.
Images
Fig. 1. Reichel notebook, I.21
Fig. 2. Kubitschek notebook, III, 63