Description: White marble statue base with moulding above and below on front and right side, still partly buried, broken away to left (w: 1.07 visible × h: 0.75 × d: 0.60).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.04
Date: 14-37 CE (reign)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, West stretch: reused south of the West gate.
Original location: Sebasteion Propylon
Last recorded location: Museum (2004)
Apparatus
1: Reinach, with an incomplete squeeze, and not knowing that the stone was complete, proposed [Ἀπόλλω]ν̣α Πατρῷον; Robert corrected this (in his first article) and then saw that Kubitschek and Reichel already gave the correct reading.
English translation
Translation source: Smith, 2013
'Zeus Patroos Sebastos Kaisar' or 'Ancestral Zeus Augustus Caesar'
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
(scil. Statue of) Zeus of our Ancestors, Augustus Caesar.
Bibliography
Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.V.13, Abklatsch 44, Reichel, 1893 R.I.5v; Gaudin, 1904 37; Calder, 1934; New York University expeditionin 1973, SBI 97
Publication: Kubitschek and Reichel, 1893 13; Reinach, 1906 24 , whence Robert, 1930 26, no. 2, Robert, 1934 49, note 1, Buckler, 1935 187; MAMA 8 431 ; Reynolds, 1980 5, whence SEG 30.1244 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1982.355 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 191 ; Smith, 2006 H.3 (listed) IAph2007 12.902; Smith, 2013 P-base 4, whence SEG 63.852.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 2. Reichel notebook I, 5v
Fig. 3. Kubitschek notebook V, 13