Description: Marble block (w: 0.904 × h: 0.585 × d: 0.39) which must have formed part of a larger structure. Two deep holes on the upper part may have been made in secondary use.

Text: Inscribed on the face, which is slightly damaged on the upper and left sides.

Letters: Standard forms, 0.02

Date: First century BCE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias Necropolis, South area: Balkar Mevkii at Çayin Karsısı

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

English translation

Translation source: Chaniotis, 2004

Decision of the council and the people [proposed by the strategoi ? (and)] Ma[rs]yas, son of Apollonios, grandson of Marsyas, secretary of the people and (?) general in charge of the territory. Since Hermogenes Theodotos, son of Hephaistion, one of the first and most illustrious citizens, a man who has as his ancestors men among the greatest and among those who built together the community and have lived in virtue, love of glory, many promises (of benefactions), and the fairest deeds for the fatherland; a man who has been himself good and virtuous, a lover of the fatherland, a constructor, a benefactor of the polis, and a savior; a man who has shown benevolence and prudence/moderation in his conduct toward the entire people and toward each one of the citizens; a man who has always shown the utmost reverence for the gods and the fatherland; who has adorned the fatherland most generously by (the execution of) the most noble promises and with dedications; who has been elected to many and most crucial embassies and contests and has accomplished everything in the best possible way; a man who having accepted all the magistracies and having been elected in an outstanding way many times has shown a just and pure/honest conduct; a man who has established relationships and has received appreciation (recommendation) by the authorities and the commanders becoming a great benefactor of the polis through these as well; who having been elected as a stephanephoros has fulfilled this liturgy as well in the manner appropriate to a religious office and in decency; whom the people has acknowledged for all these (services) rewarding him with appropriate acts of gratitude; (since) he has now passed away and it is the proper thing to conduct his funeral as well in an outstanding manner, let the council and the people resolve that he is to be praised also after his death and that he is to be crowned by the council and the demos with the crown of merit, at an expense of one hundred golden coins. Hermogenes Theodotos, son of Hephaistion, farewell!

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