Description: Fragment from the top, probably the right corner, of a white marble base (w: 0.24 × h: 0.15 × d: 0.09) with lightly moulded upper edge.

Text: Inscribed on the face

Letters: 0.025

Date: Perhaps first century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Translation

[The Council and the] People hon[oured with the] finest [honours ---]

Commentary

The beginning of an honorary text. If it is right to read a tau in line 3 the honorand may well have been an Ἀντώνιος; but there is a possibility that the reading here should be Σ, which would rule out this name.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)