Description: White marble block (w: 0.42 × h: 0.99 × d: 0.65) without moulding; broken above and on the upper left side, chipped at the right.
Text: Inscribed on the face.The left side appears complete; the text must have begun on an adjacent block of a composite monument.
Letters: 0.02-0.025
Date: First century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1934)
Apparatus
The letters highlighted were read by Loew, but not by Reichel or Calder.
2: ]ΟΝΥΣΙΟΥ Loew, 1841, Calder, 1934; ]ΥΣΙΟΥ Reichel, 1893; ΜΙΝ Loew, 1841, Reichel, 1893; Μιν/[ωήτην? Le Bas and Waddington, 1870; Μιν/[νίωνος? Liermann, 1889; Με̣ν MAMA 8
3: ]ΣΤΕΦΑΝΩ Reichel, 1893
4: ]ΓΡΑΠΤΗ Loew, 1841; ]ΡΑΠΤΗ Reichel, 1893; ]ῇ γραπτῇ MAMA 8
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
[?The People honoured] Menekrates son of Dionysios Men[ekrates?] with a gold crown, [a bronze statue] inscribed, a front seat [at all] competitions and [public] dinners, for his virtue towards it.
Bibliography
Transcription: Loew, 1841; Reichel, 1893 R.I.16v; Calder, 1934
Publication: Franz, 1847 b.2 , whence Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1595 , Liermann, 1889 2 ; MAMA 8 460, and plate 33, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 303 , Smith, 2006 H.125 (listed); IAph2007 12.1202.
Images
Fig. 1. Reichel notebook I, 16v