Description of Monument
White marble masonry block (0.35 × 0.22 × 0.42) with upper and lower edges surviving, and
with rough sides; either cut down, or from a composite monument.
Description of Text
Inscribed on the face, which is extremely worn.
Description of Letters
0.025-0.04;
simple, elongated, shallowly cut; similar to those of 5.302.
Date
First half of the fourth century (lettering).
Edition
ομνοι ιιιι
φίλον τῶν βασιλέων
Translation
friend of the emperors
Commentary
See also 5.215 and discussion at II.25.
Locations
Found: Theatre: sector V; Original location: Unknown; Last recorded location: Museum (1978)
History of Recording
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1968 (68.401;
recatalogued as 74.280).
Bibliography
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias
in Late Antiquity no. 15, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 454 (wrongly) and
665.
Text Constituted From
Copies (Reynolds, Roueché).