Description: Two adjoining fragments of a white marble statue base shaft, without moulding (together w: 1.08 × h: 0.46 × d: 0.42). The upper left corner survives as a separate fragment.
Text: Inscribed on the face; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.
Letters: 0.025
Date: A.D. 256-260 . (content)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part): reused in the excavated area.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Fragment a in Museum, b (the main block) at findspot.
English translation
Translation source: Chaniotis, 2012
[—] the most illustrius Caesar, the most splendid city of the Aphrodisieis.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
[------] the most renowned Caesar; the most splendid city of the Aphrodisians (scil. put up his statue).
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expeditionin 1976 and 2007, a: 76.54, b: D058
Publication: Roueché, 1981 2 , whence SEG 31.907 , AE 1981.766 ; Roueché, ALA 3 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 212 , ALA 2004 3, Smith, 2006 H.32 (listed), IAph2007 12.643; Chaniotis, 2012 1, whence SEG 62.800
Images
Fig. 1. Upper left corner fragment, a (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 2. Main block, b (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 3. Main block, b (1980)
Fig. 4. Main block, b, detail (1980)
Fig. 5. Main block, b (NYU, 2007)
Fig. 6. Main block, b (NYU, 2007)