Description: Upper part of an inscribed colonnette of blue marble, recomposed from three fragments (across cord 0.28 × 0.53).

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.025; Τ over Π in line 2; tilde after the abbreviations in line 3; apices—perhaps for rough breathing—above first letter in line 1, and first two letters in line 8.

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

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part): excavations, trench 4

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1975)

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

For Hypnos: Septimius Aurelius Flavius Venidius Hypsikles Euphron, high-priest and priest of Asklepios (scil. set this monument up).

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