Description: White marble statue base whose face has been cut down for re-use, from a width of 0.66 at the back, to 0. 44 or a little less across the face (measurable h: 0.92 × d: 0.60); there is a simple moulding below. The face is very worn.
Text: Inscribed on the face. The upper edge is complete; the text may have begun on an upper feature.
Letters: 0.035-0.04
Date: Middle to later second century CE (lettering, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, West Gate: re-used, upside down, in the southern pier.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (2002)
Apparatus
Fellows had considerable difficulty in reading this stone, which was read by Reynolds from the MAMA squeeze, before the clearing
of the West Gate in 2002; the readings given here are those by Chaniotis, closer to the readings by MAMA and Kubitschek
0: [ἡ βουλὴ καὶ?] IAph2007 Kubitschek indicated a vacat
3: [Ἀ]ντώνιον Δ[ιογένην?] IAph2007
4: [Ἀ]μ̣μιανὸν IAph2007
6-7: Δο[μετι?-]/νοῦ Ἑρμίο̣[υ?] IAph2007
English translation
Translation by: Angelos Chaniotis
The people (set up the statue) of Tiberius Claudius Antonius Dociminianus Hermios, the son of Tiberius Claudius Antonius Dociminianus.
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
[? The Council and] the People (honoured) [Ti]berius Cl[audius A]ntonius D[iogenes? ?Am]mianos [son of Ti]berius Cla[udius A]ntonius Do[meti]nos Hermias.
Bibliography
Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.III.3b, Abklatsch 114; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition 02.004
Publication: Fellows, 1841 66 whence CIG II.3, 1843 2781c (p. 1112); MAMA 8 496 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 292 , Smith, 2006 H.98 (listed); IAph2007 12.1019.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 2002)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 2002)
Fig. 3. Kubitschek notebook III,3b