Description:
Rectangular white marble statue base, with moulding above on four sides and below on three sides (W. 0.63 × H. 1.17 × D. 0.43). Chipped on all edges, upper front corners broken.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.04
Date:
Julio-Claudian (context, lettering)
Findspot:
South Agora: in 'East Agora Trench 5'
Original Location:
Almost certainly in the Sebasteion
Last recorded location:
Museum (1978)
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1977 (77.123; SBI 48)
Bibliography:
published by Reynolds, PCPS 206 (1980), no. 15, whence SEG 1980.1251; BE 1982.355; AnnEpig 1980.876, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 202.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds), publications. This edition Reynolds (1980).
1 v. Μᾶρκον v.
2Λέπιδον
2a       vacat
1 ΜΑΡΚΟΝ 
2ΛΕΠΙΔΟΝ
2a       vacat
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Μᾶρκον
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Λέπιδον
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Translation:

(Statue of) Marcus Lepidus.

Commentary:

Probably one of the Sebasteion group of dedications to the imperial family (9.37=72.224, 9.38=72.237, 9.39=72.275, 9.40=73.145, 9.33=77.123, 9.26=80.172, 9.27=82.108, 9.35=82.109, 9.28=82.116, 9.34=82.117, 9.29=82.118, 9.36=82.210, 9.30=84.30, 9.31=84.31, and 9.32=84.41). On these see Reynolds (1996), 'Ruler-cult at Aphrodisias'.

Photographs:

Face (1978)
 Face (1978)
Face (2001)
 Face (2001)

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