Description: White marble relief stele of irregular shape (a rectangle without its lower left corner) chipped along all adges and sporadically over the face (w: 0.29 × h: 0.40 × d: 0.06). The upper part carries a male portrait bust in high relief, the head almost in the round as it rises above the upper edge of the stele.
Text: Inscribed on either side of the head (lines 1-5) and below the bust (lines 6-7). The first two lines to the left of the head have been erased.
Letters: 0.022, but heights vary; lunate sigma, omega.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum, on display (1975)
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 1997b
[So-and-so ], market-supervisor, greets the association of linen-workers and the passers-by.
French translation
Translation source: AE
? [Un tel], emporiarque, donne ses salutations à l'association des artisans en lin et aux passants.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 75.22
Publication: Reynolds, 1997b whence AE 1995.1523; Smith, 2006 Relief 2 ; IAph2007 12.629.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1975)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1975)