Description: White marble block slightly tapering in width from the top (w: 0.35–0.30 × h: 0.58 × d: 0.18).
Text: Inscribed on a prepared face which has been left rough below.
Letters: Lunate; 0.03
Date: Third century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray: probably, but not certainly, from Aphrodisias or its territory.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (Inv. no. 81/11/801)
Translation
The platform is the property of Chrysanthos the son of Diogenes the son of Diogenes III (i.e. the son of Diogenes, the son of Diogenes the son of) Attalos the son of Apollonios the son of Perigenes Chrysanthos, and of his children and grandchildren and whomever he himself may wish.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition stray find in 1981, Museum 58
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1981)