Description: White marble statue base without moulding, with lower part still buried: w: 0.57 × h: 0.86 × d: 0.47 ( measurable ); damaged along the upper edge since the eighteenth century
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.025–0.035
Date: First century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, East stretch (south part): just north of the South-east gate, north of 12.325, 12.326
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1973)
Apparatus
The whole of line 1, the first and last letters of line 2, and the final letters of lines 4 and 5 were reported by Sherard
and party, Deering and Waddington; but could not be read by Fellows in 1841, or by Calder in 1934. 1934.
8: At the end of l.8 an area was thoroughly erased
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
The Council and the People honoured with the finest honours Dionysios son of Artemidoros son of Menippos son of Dionysios the son of Demetrios, who lived a well-ordered life and one with a view to a demonstration of virtue.
English translation
Translation source: Fellows, 1841
. . . . honoured with the fairest [?] honours Dionysius, son of Artemidorus, the son of Menippus, the son of Dionysius, the son of Demetrius, living decently and as a pattern of virtue.
Bibliography
Transcription: Picenini, 1705 27v; Sherard, 1705 16; Sherard, 1716 121; Deering, 1812 7; Fellows, 1840; Bailie, 1842 ; Waddington, 1850; Reichel, 1893 R.I.17v (mention); Calder, 1934; New York University expedition
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2769 ; Fellows, 1841 33 , whence CIG II.3, 1843 p. 1109; Bailie, 1846 62 ; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1608 ; MAMA 8 480 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 272 , Smith, 2006 H.93 (listed); IAph2007 12.307.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 3. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.6v and f.17v, at British Library
Fig. 4. Deering page 2
Fig. 5. c: Reichel, Notebook 1, page 17v