Description: White marble building block (w: 0.47 × h: 0.34 × d: 0.34) without moulding, but with a recessed edge on all sides.
Text: The inscription is cut on the face, some way down the stone, and runs into the frame on both sides.
Letters: 0.02-0.025
Date: First century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: incorporated in the Walls, South-east Gate
Original location: South East Gate tomb>
Last recorded location: Museum (1978)
Translation
The council and the people honoured Mithradates son of Athenagoras, a fine and good man, and adorned with all virtue.
Commentary
This text was one of a group cut on the family tomb whose elements were incorporated into the walls at the south east gate of the city: 12.410, 13.302, 12.409 and probably 12.411,
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Bibliography
Transcription: Gaudin, 1904108, 'la face inscrite était engagée dans la maçonnerie'; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition
Publication: Reinach, 1906 66 ; MAMA 8 462 , whence Robert, 1983a 505-506, McCabe, PHI, 1996 510 , Smith, 2006 H.130 (listed); Reynolds, 1999, Appendix B.5, whence SEG 49.1417, AE 1999.1602; IAph2007 12.410.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)