Description: No description; presumably a statue base.
Text: No description
Letters: No description
Date: Mid third century (prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Perhaps Walls, West stretch
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1716)
Apparatus
Sherard's copy shows the first two lines of the text as missing; at some time in the transmission of his text the easy restoration
was made, and was printed by Boeckh as if it had been read.
4: ΛΗΩΤ Sherard, 1716
8: ΔΟΡ Sherard, 1716
10: · ΠΡΟ Sherard, 1716
Translation
The People of the most splendid city of the Aphrodisians (honoured) the most splendid People of the Herakleotes, who joined in the sacrifice for the giving of the grant of the sacred contest. Under the supervision of Marcus Aurelius Antonius Neikomachos Blastos, first Archon for the third time.
Commentary
This is one of a group of dedications for neighbouring communities: see 12.924, 12.926, 12.927, 12.928, 12.929 and 12.930.
Bibliography
Transcription: Sherard, 1716 127v
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2762 , whence Texier, 1839 156, Liermann, 1889 32 , Robert, La Carie no. 131 , McCabe, PHI, 1996216; Roueché, PPA 62 , whence PHI PPAphr 62 ; IAph2007 12.928.
Images
Fig. 1. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.16v, at British Library