Description: Large white marble block w: 0.96 × h: 0.55 × d: 0.40, chipped along all edges, the surface polished over approximately two thirds of its area, but roughened at the right side.
Text: Scratched, beginning close to the upper edge, and perhaps commencing on an upper block.
Letters: Irregular in size and alignment; broad, shallow trenches; non-standard forms; ave. 0.07.
Date: First to fourth centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, East stretch (south part): re-used in the stretch east of Museum Garden.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1978)
Apparatus
1: There are traces of a letter to the left of mu, perhaps, but not certainly, an alpha.
2,.4-6: Lines 2, and 4-6 are in different hands, and much smaller than what precedes.
English translation
Translation source: CMR
. . . ] Diogenes son of Diogenes [ . . .
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
?Men[odotos, or son of Menodotos] Diogenes son of Diogenes [ . . .
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Walls 12
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)