Description: Round-headed stele (w: 0.36 × h: 0.59 × d: 0.32) containing the bust in relief of a boy (face damaged).
Text: Inscribed below the bust (inscribed area w: 0.355 × h: 0.75).
Letters: Line 1, 0.02, lines 2f., 0.015; square sigma, irregular zeta.
Date: Late second century or third century CE (sculpture, lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part): excavation, Tr. 4
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Apparatus
3: μνε̣[ίαϲ] Smith, 2006
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
Zosimos (scil. set this up) in grateful memory of his son Metrodoros.
English translation
Translation source: Smith, 2006
Zosimos (scil. set this up) in memory of Metrodoros (scil. his) son.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition, 75.284
Publication: Smith, 2006 Relief 3 (mention); IAph2007 12.637.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1975)