Description:
Two joining fragments of a white marble columnar statue base shaft (total H. H. c. 1.35. diam. 0.53); the substantial part found standing on a plinth (H. H. 0.33) cut down from the socle of a fluted column; the upper left corner fragment found separately.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.03-0.04, clear, irregular.
Date:
Fifth century (lettering).
Findspot:
Tetrastoon: main part found standing against a column of the western colonnade of the tetrastoon, immediately south of 8.410; fragment found in the same area (NPS I) at 0.20 above the paving. .
Original Location:
Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot and Museum.
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition, main part in 1972, fragment in 1973 (73.206).
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 64 and plate xvi, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 728, Steinepigramme 02/09/26.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1[·· c. 13 ··] ἔρνος | [·· c. 12 ··]Λ̣ΗΟΣ |
2[·· c. 12 ··]ΙΝΟΡΑΣ | [·· ? ··] |
3(5) [·· ? ··] | λ̣[··]ΣΗΣ Ἀ̣φροδ[ίτη]ν̣ |
4ἐνφύλιον δῆριν ὀλεσί |πτολιν ἐξελάσαντα leaf
1[·············]ΕΡΝΟΣ
2[············]·ΗΟΣ
3[············]ΙΝΟΡΑΣ
4[ - - - ]
5[ - - - ]
6·[··]ΣΗΣ·ΦΡΟΔ[···]·
7ΕΝΦΥΛΙΟΝΔΗΡΙΝΟΛΕΣΙ
8ΠΤΟΛΙΝΕΞΕΛΑΣΑΝΤΑ leaf
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<lb n="1" />
<l n="1" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="13" unit="character" dim="left" />
ἔρνος
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="12" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
λ
</unclear>
ηοσ
</orig>
</l>
<lb n="3" />
<l n="2" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="12" unit="character" dim="left" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ινορασ
</orig>
<lb n="4" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="16-18" unit="character" dim="left" />
</l>
<lb n="5" />
<l n="3" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="16-18" unit="character" dim="left" />
<lb n="6" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
λ
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" dim="internal" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
σησ
</orig>
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
φροδ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ίτη
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ν
</unclear>
</l>
<lb n="7" />
<l n="4" >
ἐνφύλιον
δῆριν
ὀλεσί
<lb n="8" type="worddiv" />
πτολιν
ἐξελάσαντα
<g type="leaf" />
</l>
</lg>

Translation:

[·· ? ··] offspring [·· ? ··] Aphrodite, (he who) drove out city-destroying civil strife.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 V.37.

Photographs:

Base in position, with 8.410 (1976)
 Base in position, with 8.410 (1976)
Base (1976)
 Base (1976)
Detail, left (1972)
 Detail, left (1972)
Detail, right (1972)
 Detail, right (1972)
Upper right corner fragment (1973)
 Upper right corner fragment (1973)
Fragments assembled (1977)
 Fragments assembled (1977)

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