Description: i: Lines 1-2 are on a large statue base capital (w: 0.55 plus moulding - 0.24 × h: 0.43 × d: 0.625) with the upper moulding broken away, and broken below. ii: Lines 3 ff are 'on a square marble, with moulding, on ye ground' (Sherard); a white marble statue base, at least 1 m. high, of which three fragments survive. a: lines 1-4; upper edge remains, with moulding, very chipped (w: 0.10 × h: 0.22 × d: 0.30). b: lines 13-20; no edges (w: 0.105 × h: 0.255 × d: 0.19). c: lines 20-26; no edges (w: 0.10 × h: 0.28 × d: 0.15).

Text: i. Inscribed in two lines along the lower fascia. The text must have begun on a fascia of the upper moulding. ii. Inscribed on one face.

Letters: Line 1, 0.03; line 2, 0.025; lines 3 ff., 0.02-0.025.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering, nomenclature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east stretch: i: half buried along the south face of the south-east stretch; ii apparently in or near the south-east stretch; fragments later found b in the wall of a house, a and c during the clearing of the Theatre.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: The capital is still in situ; the base fragments are now in the Museum (2007).

Translation

No translation yet (2007)

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