Description:
A plain white marble statue base shaft (W. 0.54 × H. 1.28 × D. 0.50).
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
ll. 1-10, 0.045; ll.11 f., 0.025. Ligatures: ΗΝ, l.2, l.5. Circular stops before and after ΑΥΡ.
Date:
A.D. 211-217 Reign
Findspot:
Walls, South (east part): reused in the stretch excavated in 1975.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded (lines 1-10 only) by the MAMA expedition in 1934. Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1975 (catalogue no. 75.325; SBI 34).
Bibliography:
Published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 452, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 209.
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 v. Ἰουλίαν̣ v.
2Σεβαστὴν̣
3 v. μητέρα v.
4κάστρων ὁ
5δῆμος τὴν
6 v. ἑαυτοῦ v.
7εὐεργέτιν
8ἐξ ἀπολείψε-
9ως Φλαβίου
10 v. Ἀττάλο̣υ v.
10a       vacat
11ἐπιμεληθέντος Μάρ-
12κου stop Αὐρ(ηλίου) stop Χρησίμου τοῦ
13 v. Ἀπολλωνίου v.
1 ΙΟΥΛΙΑ· 
2ΣΕΒΑΣΤΗ·
3 ΜΗΤΕΡΑ 
4ΚΑΣΤΡΩΝΟ
5ΔΗΜΟΣΤΗΝ
6 ΕΑΥΤΟΥ 
7ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΙΝ
8ΕΞΑΠΟΛΕΙΨΕ
9ΩΣΦΛΑΒΙΟΥ
10 ΑΤΤΑΛ·Υ 
10a       vacat
11ΕΠΙΜΕΛΗΘΕΝΤΟΣΜΑΡ
12ΚΟΥ stop ΑΥΡ stop ΧΡΗΣΙΜΟΥΤΟΥ
13 ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ 
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Ἰουλία
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ν
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<lb n="2" />
Σεβαστ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ν
</unclear>
<lb n="3" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
μητέρα
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="4" />
κάστρων
<lb n="5" />
δῆμος
τ
ὴν
<lb n="6" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
ἑαυτοῦ
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="7" />
εὐεργέτιν
<lb n="8" />
ἐξ
ἀπολείψε
<lb n="9" type="worddiv" />
ως
Φλαβίου
<lb n="10" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
Ἀττάλ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ο
</unclear>
υ
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="10a" />
<space extent="1" unit="line" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="11" />
ἐπιμεληθέντος
Μάρ
<lb n="12" type="worddiv" />
κου
<g type="stop" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Αὐρ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ηλίου
</supplied>
</expan>
<g type="stop" />
Χρησίμου
τοῦ
<lb n="13" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
Ἀπολλωνίου
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>

Translation:

Julia Augusta mother of the military camps: the People (put up the statue of) their benefactress, from the bequest of Flavius Attalos. Marcus Aurelius Chresimos son of Apollonios took responsibility.

Commentary:

A statue of Caracalla (12.641=75.326) which is a pair to this, was found in the same area; a further statue of Caracalla (12.326=MAMA 451) was set up from the same bequest; but only Julia Domna is described as a benefactor, although there is no indication of what she might have done

Photographs:

Face (1976)
 Face (1976)
Face (1978)
 Face (1978)
Face (2001)
 Face (2001)

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