Description: Right side of a white marble statue base (w: 0.32 × h: 0.37 × d: 0.50) with moulding above and below at the front and on the right face, and a hole for attachment on top.
Text: Inscribed on fasciae of upper and lower mouldings (lines 1, 2, 9), and on face, which is lightly drafted.
Letters: Lightly cut; second century CE; ave. 0.02
Date: Second century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray find from 'fortification area'.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1980)
Apparatus
2: Ζήνων is a name of the right length and common at Aphrodisias.
4: ΜΕΝΟΙΙ: the Ν has no diagonal stroke.
6: Perhaps ἐπεμελήσατο.
Translation
[The council and the] People honoured [?Zenon] the son of Attalos [the son of ? . . .]the son of Demeas [a man who came] of a distinguished family. His son [name ?saw to it] that the monument was erected [who had also] in part [paid for ] the fountain.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 77.138
Publication: Smith, 2006 H.146 (listed); IAph2007 15.288.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1977)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 3. Face (M. Roueché, 1980)
Fig. 4. Face (M. Roueché, 1994)