Description: A small stele (w: 0.37 × h: 0.75 × d: 0.25) with only one prepared face, slightly recessed; above this a rough circle is the only trace of decoration.
Text: Inscribed on the prepared face (prepared area 0.39 × 0.255); the surface is very worn.
Letters: Irregular cursive hand , 0.015-0.02.
Date: Third-fourth century (formulae, penalty).
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray find.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Museum.
Apparatus
4: Παυλίου Roueché, ALA; Πρ̣α̣υλίου Feissel, 1991
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
The place and the platform are (the property) of Bitos(?) [son of ---]rotikos son of Praulios, also known as Asterios, cursor, of the most revered phylae; if anyone should wish, without my knowledge, to bury anyone in (scil. here), he will give to the most sacred treasury one pound of gold.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition
Publication: Roueché, ALA 150 and plate xxxvi, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 517 , Feissel, 1991 375, n.57; ALA 2004 150, . IAph2007 15.334.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 3. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)