Description: A white marble statue base shaft (w: 1.77 × h: 0.42 × d: 0.46) which is broken below and at the top left-hand corner. The inscribed face was turned inwards when the stone was re-used, and has been revealed only by the collapse of the adjoining wall; only the upper part is visible, to about 0.70 from the upper edge.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Based on the standard square script of the second and third centuries, but with some new features; Ν and Η each have a decorative crossbar (Ν throughout, Η in line 5 but not in line 1); omega is in an unusual form; and there is a square sigma in line 5. The lettering of the last two lines is less correct. The interlinear space, 0.015 between lines 1-3, increases to 0.04-0.05 between lines 3-5, giving an inelegant overall appearance; a possible explanation is that the mason initially omitted line 2, and then inserted it.
Date: A.D. 293-311. (reign)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls North-east: re-used in the wall at the north-east corner of the Stadium.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1975).
Apparatus
The letters highlighted were recorded by Paris and Holleaux and Reichel, but had been lost when the stone was read in the
1970s.
3: The dotted α in Καισάρων was apparently clear to the original editors.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
For the eternal endurance of the lords Imperators and Caesars.
Bibliography
Transcription: Paris and Holleaux, 1884; Reichel, 1893, R.I.12; J. and L. Robert, 1946 Notebook 40 (1946); New York University expedition
Publication: Paris and Holleaux, 1885 9 ; Roueché, ALA 9 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 152 , LSA 237; ALA 2004 9, IAph2007 12.108.
Images
Fig. 1. Front face (M. Roueché, 1975)
Fig. 2. Front face (M. Roueché, 1975)
Fig. 3. View in situ (M. Roueché, 1975)
Fig. 4. Squeeze
Fig. 5. Reichel notebook I, page 12