Description: Statue base of tapering white marble statue base shaft, damaged above but substantially reconstructed from fragments (w: 0.465-0.425 × h: 1.17 × d: 0.44).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.017; apices on Ρ and Α in line 1.
Date: Probably third century CE (lettering, nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part), in the excavation area
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Apparatus
4: Τ executed as a Γ.
Translation
(scil. Statue of) Marcus Aurelius [---]nus, son of Artemon son of Kallikles, surnamed "Gecko", sculptor; he lived with modesty and self-control, giving an example of virtue. The erection of the statue was the action of Zenas, his son.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 76.96, SBI 28
Publication: Erim and Reynolds, 1989 19 , whence SEG 40.942 , Smith, 2006 H.117 (listed); IAph2007 12.639.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)