Description: White marble statue base with moulded panels on three sides (w: 0.55 × h: 1.11 × d: 0.54) broken below and at the upper left corner of the front face, which is also worn.

Text: Inscribed (a) on the front face, (b) on the right side. The moulding is complete above; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.

Letters: Second to third centuries C.E.; 0.025; very similar to those of ; apices on the numerals in b. 3.

Date: Third century CE (lettering, nomenclature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part): South wall excavation, mid area

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

a: [The Council and the People by a decision ] and a [decree} honoured [Marcus] Aurelius [Zen]on, son of Publius Celtius Zenon, the son of Dionysios, with the [finest] and greatest honours - a man of the well-born among us, one whose life style has been and is seemly and worthy of respect to the point of being a demonstration of virtue; and on becoming [?a town] councillor [?he instituted a fund for distributions of money . . .

b: The appointed day for the lottery is the 20th day of the eighth month.

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