Description: Upper part of a white marble statue base without moulding (w: 0.48 × h: 0.42 × d: 0.38).
Text: Inscribed on the face. The upper edge is complete; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.
Letters: 0.03-0.325
Date: Second to third century, ?after 181. (contests)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, East stretch (south part): re-used just north of the South-east Gate, on the inside, and north of 12.326
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1975)
Apparatus
1: Η Sherard, 1705; ΤΙ Picenini, 1705; I Sherard, 1716 Μ added in pencil in Deering's copy. Traces of two uprights now visible
9-12: were read with some difficulty by Sherard, but more clearly by Deering; by 1904 they were lost.
11: ΚΑΙ Picenini, 1705; ΚΟΥ Sherard, 1705; ΝΑΠΟΥ Sherard, 1716; Κου(ίντου) CIG II.2, 1835, MAMA 8; ΜΑΡΧΟΥ Deering, 1812
English translation
Translation source: Roueché, PPA
[? Public bodies honoured] M(arcus) Fl(avius) Antonius Lysimachos, sophistes, high priest, gymnasiarch, stephanephorus, neopoios, contest-president in perpetuity of the Lysimachean contests: in the year when Marcus Antonius Epineikos was contest-president.
French translation
Translation source: Puech, 2002
. . . [a/ont élevé la statue de] M(arcus) Fl(avius) Antonius Lysimachos, sophiste, grand-prêtre, gymnasiarque, stéphanèphore, néope, agonothète perpétuel des concours Lysimacheia, sous l'agonothésie de Marcus Antonius Éponicos.
Bibliography
Transcription: Picenini, 1705 18 and from Tisser, 53v, whnce Sherard, 1705 16; Sherard, 1716 121; Deering, 1812 2v, no. 9; Reichel, 1893 R.I.17v (4 lines sketched); Gaudin, 1904 163; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2785 , whence Liermann, 1889 20b ; Reinach, 1906 64 (mention) ; MAMA 8 501 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 318 ; published by Roueché, PPA 54 , whence Puech, 2002, 167, PHI PPAphr 54, Smith, 2006 H.124 (listed); IAph2007 12.325.
Images
Fig. 1. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.6v and f.17v, at British Library
Fig. 2. Deering page 2v