Description: Plain white marble statue base shaft chipped on all edges (w: 0.58 × h: 1.31 × d: 0.49).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Lines 1-12, 0.045-0.05; lines 13-14, 0.025; small circle for stop.
Date: A.D. 210-217 . (reign, nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part): excavation on inner side of S. wall, trench 1; reused.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
Apparatus
1: First two letters damaged; Α is clearly legible but Υ is not.
14: The final Υ is tall.
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Pius Augustus, Britannicus Maximus. The People (scil. put up his statue) from the bequest of Flavius Attalos. Marcus Aurelius Chresimos, son of Apollonios, undertook (scil. care of the erection).
French translation
Translation source: AE
De l'empereur César Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Pius Augustus, Britannicus maximus, le peuple (a élevé la statue), sur le legs de Flavius Attalos, par les soins de Marcus Aurelius Chrèsimos, fils d'Apollonios.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 75.326, SBI 35
Publication: , Smith, 2006 H.29 (listed); IAph2007 12.641, whence AE 2007.1417.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1975)
Fig. 2. 12.645 with 12.641 (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1975)
Fig. 3. Face (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 4. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 5. Face (C. Roueché, 2001)