Description: White marble base capital with heavy moulding above (top w: 0.68 × d: 0.70; shaft w: 0.42 × d: 0.37; height 0.32), broken away to right.
Text: Inscribed on the upper moulding (line 1) on lower fascia (line 2) and on the shaft (line 3 ff). The text very probably continued on a base below.
Letters: 0.0175; superscript bars for abbreviation, l.4
Date: Probably third century. (lettering, nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east stretch: lying loose on the inner side of the wall, near 8.113.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1989)
Apparatus
4/5: . . ./ΟΓΑΤΟΥ Ἡλιόδωρον Reinach, 1906; Δι/ογᾶ τοῦ Robert, 1929
Translation
The Council and the People [ and ? the Gerousia] honoured with the finest [and] fitting honours Mar(cus) Aur(elius) Cl(audius) Ktesias, [son of Di]ogas the son of Heliodoros [ . . .
Bibliography
Transcription: Gaudin, 1904 144; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition
Publication: Reinach, 1906 61 , whence (on line 4) Robert, 1929 126, n. 5, SEG 4.399; MAMA 8 503 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 258 , Smith, 2006 H.119 (listed); IAph2007 12.539.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1989)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1989)