Description: White marble statue base without moulding (w: 0.43 × h: 1.10 × d: 0.40)

Text: Inscribed on the face, whose edges are slightly recessed.

Letters: 0.015-0.0175; line 6, 0.025-0.0375

Date: First to second centuries CE (prosopography, lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, East stretch (north part): reused in a bastion, east of the north-east gate, north of 12.211; "Intérieur de l'immeuble Hadji Dergalioglou Mustafa" (Gaudin).

Original location: Place of Palms/South Agora, ?

Last recorded location: Findspot (1975)

English translation

Translation by: Angelos Chaniotis

For Aphrodite and for the Divi Augusti and for the People, Artemidoros Pedisas son of Dionysios, biological son of Artemidoros son of Diogenes, at his own expense set up the Hermes, and the gilded Aphrodite, and the Erotes carrying torches on either side, and the marble Eros in front of the statue of Hermes, as he also promised when the palm grove was being constructed at the time in which he served as a strategos.

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

For Aphrodite and for the gods the Augusti and for the People, Artemidoros Pedisas son of Dionysios, by birth of Artemidoros the son of Diogenes. at his own expense set up the Hermes, and the gilded Aphrodite, and the Erotes carrying torches on either side, and the marble Eros in front of it, as he also promised when the palm grove was being constructed in the period of his tenure of the office of strategos.

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