Description: A white marble statue base shaft with moulding on all sides, with the right side hollowed out to make the basin of a fountain. Now very worn by water, and with the right side (now the upper edge) broken.: w: 0.50 × h: 1.29 × d: 0.515
Text: Inscribed on the front face, which has been very worn by water.
Letters: Lines 1-11, 0.38; lines 12-14, 0.025.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, West Gate: Near the west gate (Sherard); built into a fountain in Karaçasu (1976)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (2001)
Apparatus
Underlined letters seen by previous editors
8: ἐν πᾶσιν Καρ Sherard, 1705; ἐν πᾶσιν / Καρ Sherard, 1716
15: In 1976 we thought we read, very faintly, Καρ(μινίου) Ἀθηναγόρου IAph2007
English translation
Translation source: Chaniotis, 2004
(The city has erected the statue of) Marcus Flavius Carminius Athenagoras Livianus, the illustrius senator, her own benefactor in every matter, the son of the consularis Carminius Athenagoras; Flavianus, his friend, took care of the honour
Bibliography
Transcription: Picenini, 1705 10102, 15, Sherard, 1705 10101, 12, Sherard, 1716 10101, 127v; New York University expedition in 1976 and 2001, 01.002
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2783 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 321 , Smith, 2006 H.70 (listed); IAph2007 12.1018; Chaniotis, 2004 3, whence SEG 54.1029, AE 2004.1446-61 (description)
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 3. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.6r and f.16v, at British Library