Description: A plain statue base shaft, complete on all sides (w: 0.58 × h: 1.06).
Text: Inscribed on the face; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.
Letters: Standard second-third-century forms, but rather irregular in height, 0.03-0.35.
Date: early third century . (contests)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, North stretch: in wall at the north side of the Stadium.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot
Apparatus
12: ΜΙΛΩΝΟΣΤΟΥΕΡΜΙΟΥ Gaudin, 1904; Μίλωνος ( vac. 1) Ἑρμίου Reinach, 1906; Μίλωνος δ' τοῦ Ἑρμίου MAMA 8
Translation
?son of Apollo]nios son of Athenagoras, who won the contest of statue-makers of the Lysimachea Tatianea with the statue ?of the first four-year cycle, according to the decree of the Council and the People, put (scil. it) up, when Milon (i.e. son of Milon son of Milon son of Milon) son of Hermias was contest-president.
Bibliography
Transcription: Gaudin, 1904, 97; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition
Publication: Reinach, 1906 147 , whence Squarciapino, 1943 1 ; MAMA 8 519 , whence Ritti, 1971 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1972.414 ; Erim and Reynolds, 1989 17 ; Roueché, PPA 76 , whence PHI PPAphr 76, Smith, 2006 H.268 (listed); IAph2007 12.31.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 2. Face (Gaudin squeeze, 1904)