Description:
A white marble
statue base shaft, complete on all sides (w: 1.16 × h: 0.51 × d: 0.46).
Text:
Inscribed on the face; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.
Letters: lines 1-9, 0.027; lines 10-16, 0.025.
Date: A.D. 253-260. (content)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls, South (east part): reused in the southern stretch, section excavated in 1975.
Original location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Museum (1993).
Interpretive
[Ἡ πόλις?]
Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον
Διογένην τὸν λαμ-
πρότατον ἡγεμό-
να ἔνδοξον ἀν-
5δρεῖον ἁγνὸν φι-
λάνθρωπον, διὰ
πάσης ἥκοντα ἀ-
ρέτης, τὸν ἑαυτῆς
((scroll)) εὐεργέτην ((scroll))
( vac. 1 line)
10προνοησαμένων
τῆς ἀναστάσεως
τῶν περὶ Μᾶρκον
Ἀντώνιον Οὐενί-
διον Ἀπελλᾶν τὸν
15ἀξιολογώτατον ἀρ-
((scroll))χόντων ((scroll))
Diplomatic
[......]
ΜΑΡΚΟΝΑΥΡΗΛΙΟΝ
ΔΙΟΓΕΝΗΝΤΟΝΛΑΜ
ΠΡΟΤΑΤΟΝΗΓΕΜΟ
ΝΑΕΝΔΟΞΟΝΑΝ
5ΔΡΕΙΟΝΑΓΝΟΝΦΙ
ΛΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΝΔΙΑ
ΠΑΣΗΣΗΚΟΝΤΑΑ
ΡΕΤΗΣΤΟΝΕΑΥΤΗΣ
ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΗΝ
vacat
10ΠΡΟΝΟΗΣΑΜΕΝΩΝ
ΤΗΣΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΕΩΣ
ΤΩΝΠΕΡΙΜΑΡΚΟΝ
ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΝΟΥΕΝΙ
ΔΙΟΝΑΠΕΛΛΑΝΤΟΝ
15ΑΞΙΟΛΟΓΩΤΑΤΟΝΑΡ
ΧΟΝΤΩΝ
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
[The City (scil. put up the statue of) ] Marcus Aurelius Diogenes, the most splendid governor, distinguished, brave, decent, generous, having
achieved all virtue, her benefactor; the archons (scil. led by) the most worthy Marcus Venidius Apellas supervised the erection (scil. of the monument).
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 75.327; SBI 36
Publication: Roueché, 1981, 5 , whence SEG 31.909 ; Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1982.357 ; AE 1981.769 ; by Roueché, ALA 6 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 255 , ALA 2004 6, Smith, 2006 H.42 (listed), IAph2007 12.645.
