Description: A plain white marble statue base shaft (w: 0.54 × h: 1.28 × d: 0.50).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Lines 1-10, 0.045; lines 11 f., 0.025. Circular stops before and after ΑΥΡ.
Date: A.D. 211-217 (Reign)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part): reused in the stretch excavated in 1975.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Translation
Julia Augusta mother of the military camps: the People (put up the statue of) their benefactress, from the bequest of Flavius Attalos. Marcus Aurelius Chresimos son of Apollonios took responsibility.
Commentary
12.641 which is a pair to this, was found in the same area; a further statue of Caracalla 12.326 was set up from the same bequest.
Bibliography
Transcription: Calder, 1934 , (lines 1-10 only); New York University expedition 75.325, SBI 34
Publication: MAMA 8 452 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 209 , Smith, 2006 H.28 (listed); IAph2007 12.642.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 3. Face (C. Roueché, 2001)