Description: Two joining fragments from the upper right corner of a white marble base (w: 0.28 × h: 0.30 × d: 0.30).
Text: Inscribed on the face; the text may have begun on a crowning feature.
Letters: 0.02-0.025; dots for stops; stops for abbreviation; from line 4 letters get smaller and rather more closely squeezed together.
Date: Later second/early third century CE (lettering, nomen)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, North stretch: 'by the north wall of the Stadium' (MAMA)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot: both fragments (1893); right hand fragment only (1934)
Apparatus
The opening elements of lines 1-5 were on a fragment transcribed by Kubitschek, but not seen by Calder
4: [c. 6 Ἀ]γ̣̣αθημέρου MAMA 8, IAph2007
5: [υἱὸν . . . ] ζήσαντα MAMA 8, IAph2007
6: [καλῶς καὶ] MAMA 8; [κοσμίως καὶ] Robert, Hellenica XIII
7/8: [τειμηθέντα] ὑπό τε / [τῆς γερουσίας ἐ]π̣ὶ/ MAMA 8
Translation
[The Council and the People?] and the gerousia honoured, even after his death, Aelius Cl(audius) [---] son of Agathemeros [---] who lived [in a decent and] virtuous manner [---]
Bibliography
Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893, K.III.9, Abklatsch 87 (two fragments); Calder, 1934 (right hand fragment only)
Publication: MAMA 8 494 , whence Robert, Hellenica XIII 230, McCabe, PHI, 1996 413 , Smith, 2006 H.160 (listed); IAph2007 12.30.
Images
Fig. 1. Kubitschek notebook III, 9