8. Verse honours for ?a governor

Monument: A white marble columnar statue base shaft, broken above, standing on a high plinth. The column has been re-used; decoration in relief survives on what is now the back.
Text: Inscribed on the upper part of the shaft.
Letters: 0.03.
Date: Third/fourth century (lettering).

	[...] \|
	[...]s \|
	[...]n inemptum \|
	e[... c. 20 ...]ii de marmore lingua \|
	fundere iura sua o[..]rum quae referre tribunal \|
5	(5) vacat

[...] not bought [...] from the marble [?in his own/in their] tongue, to pour out the laws and to ?recall, the tribunal of the [...] (?)

l.4 quae for que (Feissel, JRA, Jones, per litteras).

Face: right view (1977) Face: left view (1977) Back (2004) Right side (2004) Left side (2004)

Face (2004) View (2004)

Jones has offed the conjecture [cel]sumque referre tribunal; but the surviving letter before UM does not appear to be an S.

See discussion at II.15.

Found: North Temenos House: standing in the north-east corner of a large central room or court. See plan 5.
Original: Findspot.
Last Recorded: Findspot.

Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography: Published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 8, whence PHI 397, Steinepigramme 02/09/25.
Text constituted from: Copies (Reynolds, Roueché).

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