Description: Four adjoining fragments from the upper part of a white marble statue base shaft without moulding (together w: 0.50 × h: 0.79 × d: 0.24). Top and bottom are lost, but both sides survive.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.022; lines 1-2 are cut more lightly than the rest.
Date: Document i, lines 1-2: Late first century BCE. (prosopography, lettering); Document ii: early second century. (prosopography, lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, North-east: MAMA fragments found in a field wall north-east of the Stadium; other fragments stray finds.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Apparatus
i.1: πα[ντ]είμ[ω ἀγάλματα?] MAMA 8; πά[ρ]ειμ[ι] Robert, Hellenica XIII
i.2: Καισάρε̣ι̣α εἰ MAMA 8; Καίσαρ[ι] ἀεί Robert, Hellenica XIII
ii.4: ἱε[ρεῦς Μῆνὸς Ἀσ]- MAMA 8
ii.5: καινοῦ καὶ Ἑρ[μοῦ Ἀγοραίου τὰ] MAMA 8; ἀν[αθήματα πάντα] MAMA 8; [ἐπ]ισκευάσας [ἀποκαθέστησεν] MAMA 8
English translation
Translation source: Chaniotis, 2024
I am Victory, always at the side of Caesar, the descendant of a god. Kallikrates son of Molossos, priest of Men Askainos and of Hermes of the Agora, himself restored and re-erected the dedications of his ancestors, the (statue of) Victory and the lion, for the divine Augusti and the People.
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
I am Victory, always present with Caesar, the descendant of a god. For the gods Augusti and the People, the (scil. Statue of) Victory and the ?lion: Kallikrates son of Molossos, priest of Men Askainos and of Hermes of the Agora, prepared and restored the dedications of his ancestors.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 1982
I, Victory, am always with Caesar, of divine descent. To the divine Augusti and the Demos, the Victory and the ?lion: Callicrates son of Molossus, priest of Men Ascainus and Hermes Agoraius, repared and restored the dedications of his ancestors.
Bibliography
Transcription: Calder, 1934, two fragments; New York University expedition all fragments, 62.268 a and b, 69.328
Publication: MAMA 8446 (two fragments) , whence Lane, 1964 3, Robert, Hellenica XIII 128-131, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1966.397 , Lane, 1971 120, with photograph; Published with new fragments Reynolds, 1980 1 whence SEG 30.1245 , AE 1980.866, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1982.355 ; Reynolds, 1982 32 , whence SEG 32.1097 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1983.387 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 147 McCabe, PHI, 1996 148 ; IAph2007 13.116; Chaniotis, 2024 p.309-310.
