Description:
A white marble statue base shaft (H. 0.42 × W. 1.77 × D. 0.46) which is broken below and at the top left-hand corner. The inscribed face was turned inwards when the stone was re-used, and has been revealed only by the collapse of the adjoining wall; only the upper part is visible, to about 0.70 from the upper edge.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
Based on the standard square script of the second and third centuries, but with some new features; Ν and Η each have a decorative crossbar (Ν throughout, Η in l. 5 but not in l. 1); omega is in an unusual form; and there is a square sigma in line 5. The lettering of the last two lines is less correct. The interlinear space, c. 0.015 between lines 1-3, increases to 0.04-0.05 between lines 3-5, giving an inelegant overall appearance; a possible explanation is that the mason initially omitted l. 2, and then inserted it.
Date:
A.D. 293-311 (reigns).
Findspot:
Walls, North-east: re-used in the wall at the north-east corner of the Stadium. .
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1975).
History of discovery:
Copied by Paris and Holleaux; by Reichel, 5 June 1893 (R.I.12b); recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by •Paris & Holleaux, no. 9; by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 9, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 152.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché); Reichel notebook; publication. This edition Roueché (2007).
1 ὑπὲρ τῆς τῶν
2 κυρίων Αὐτοκρα -
3 τόρων καὶ Καισ-
4ρων αἰωνίου
5 vac. διαμονῆς
1[··]ΕΡΤΗΣΤΩΝ
2[··]ΡΙΩΝΑΥΤΟΚΡΑ
3[·]ΟΡΩΝΚΑΙΚΑΙΣ·
4ΡΩΝΑΙΩΝΙΟΥ
5   ΔΙΑΜΟΝΗΣ
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<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
</rdg>
<rdg resp="previous" >
ὑπ
</rdg>
</app>
ὲρ
τῆς
τῶν
<lb n="2" />
<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
</rdg>
<rdg resp="previous" >
κυ
</rdg>
</app>
ρίων
Αὐτοκρα
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
</rdg>
<rdg resp="previous" >
τ
</rdg>
</app>
όρων
καὶ
Καισ
<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
</rdg>
<rdg resp="previous" >
</rdg>
</app>
<lb n="4" type="worddiv" />
ρων
αἰωνίου
<lb n="5" />
<space extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
διαμονῆς
</ab>

Apparatus

The letters highlighted were recorded by Paris and Holleaux and Reichel, but had been lost when the stone was read in the 1970s.

Translation:

For the eternal endurance of the lords Imperators and Caesars.

Commentary:

See further discussion at ala2004 II.17.

Photographs:

Front face (1975)
 Front face (1975)
Front face (1975)
 Front face (1975)
View in situ (1975)
 View in situ (1975)

Representations:

Squeeze
 Squeeze
Reichel notebook I, page 12 (1893)
  Reichel notebook I, page 12 (1893)

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