Description: White marble statue base with heavy moulding above and below on three sides (w: 0.81 at moulding, 0.69 at face × h: 0.47 × d: 0.77); the moulding and part of the left side are chipped away.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.018-0.02
Date: A.D. 41/54 (reign)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east stretch: reused and fallen, south of the East gate, near 12.514, 12.510, 12.516.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1983)
Apparatus
Letters recorded by Sherard and Deering but not read subsequently are highlighted.
1-2: [Σε]͵βαστὸν MAMA 8
2: [Σεβ]αστὸν Sherard, 1705, Wood, 1750; Σεβαστὸν Deering, 1812
3: . . ΔΗΜΟΣ Sherard, 1705; . . . ΙΜΟΣ Wood, 1750, Deering, 1812 || . . ΖΗΝΩΝΟΣ Sherard, 1705
Translation
(scil. Statue of) Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator: the People (put up his statue, acting) with Menandros son of Diogenes the son of Zenon, his high priest, and (?priest) of Dionysos.
Bibliography
Transcription: Picenini, 1705 28, whence Sherard, 1705 39; Wood, 1750 14, 55;(14, f.45); Deering, 1812 2v, no.12; Loew, 1841; Waddington, 1850; Gaudin, 1904 78; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition in 1977
Publication: CIG II.2, 18352739 ; Franz, 1847 from Loew, a.10 (correction) ; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1621 ; Reinach, 1906 26 (mention) ; MAMA 8 447 , whence SEG 30.1244 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 203 , Smith, 2006 H.18 (listed); IAph2007 12.515.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1983)
Fig. 3. Face (M. Roueché, 1983)
Fig. 4. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.13r, at British Library
Fig. 5. Wood notebook 14, page 55
Fig. 6. Wood notebook 14, loose page 45
Fig. 7. Deering page 2v