Description: 'A pedestal' (Fellows); presumably a statue base shaft, probably broken below.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: No description
Date: Third century CE (nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, East stretch (south part): near the South-east gate
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1850)
Apparatus
2: ΚΛ Sherard, 1716 not reported by Fellows or Waddington
6: ΩΛΙ Fellows, 1840
9: ΡΗΤΟ Fellows, 1840
10: Waddington suggested καὶ σοφιστὴν for the tenth line, on a parallel with 14.18; but 'rhetor' appears alone in 12.909, and it ispossible that the text is complete.
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
The homeland (set up a statue of) Tiberius Cl(audius) Aurelius Ktesias, son of Tiberius Claudius Kapitoleinos, the rhetor [...]
French translation
Translation source: Puech, 2002
Sa patrie (a élevé la statue de) Tiberius Cl(audius) Ctèsias, fils de Tiberius Claudius Capitolinus, orateur
English translation
Translation source: Fellows, 1841
The city [honours, probably by erecting a statue,] Tiberius Aurelius Ctesias, the Rhetor, son of Tiberius Clausdius Capitolinus
Bibliography
Transcription: Sherard, 1716 120; Fellows, 1840; Waddington, 1850.
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835, 2797 ; Fellows, 1841, 29 , whence Bailie, 1846 57 ; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1598 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 294 , Puech, 2002, 76, Smith, 2006 H.120 (listed); IAph2007 12.324.
Images
Fig. 1. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.18v, at British Library