Description: White marble altar (w: 0.22 × h: 0.66 × d: 0.175) with simple moulding above on all four sides and below on three (a, c and d); on face a there is a relief of busts of sun and moon above and an eagle below.
Text: Inscribed on faces b, c and d, in each case above an area which shows signs of erasure,
Letters: 0.02; lunate sigma, omega, lunate and square epsilon; poorly aligned.
Date: Perhaps second century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Translation
(b): South wind
(c): North Wind, West Wind
(d): East Wind
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 63.434, Museum 106.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 2. Face b (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 3. Face c (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 4. Face d (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)