Description: Piece from the right side of a white marble stele (w: 0.275 × h: 0.35 × d: 0.15)
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (w: 0.215 × h: 0.31). There are traces of plaster on the face.
Letters: 0.02
Date: First to early second century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South (east part): in preliminary clearing for excavation
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
Apparatus
2: There appear to be two uprights at the end of the line, very close together and unlikely to be Η
4-5: or σὺν [τοῖς τέκνοις?
9: Possible traces of a second upright to left of Ι̣
English translation
Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché
. . . ] of [ . ? . -]anus [steward] of Tiberius [Claudius At]talos, sen[atorial], but no-one else [shall have the right] to open it (?masculine accusative) [ . . . ] of Trophime [ . . ? > . ] having opened (?masculine nominative [ . . .)
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 75.16
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1975)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)