Description:
A white marble Statue base shaft, complete on all sides (H. 0.51 × W. 1.16 × D. 0.46).
Text:
Inscribed on the face; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.
Letters:
ll. 1-9, 0.027; ll. 10-16, 0.025. Ligatures: ΝΗΝ, l.2; ΝΗ, l. 3; ΤΗ, ll.8 (bis), 11; ΝΤ, l. 14.
Date:
A.D. 253-260 (content).
Findspot:
Walls, South (east part): reused in the southern stretch, section excavated in 1975.
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Museum (1993).
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.327; SBI 36).
Bibliography:
Published by •Roueché (1981), 5, whence SEG 1981.909; BE 1982.357; An.Ép. 1981.769; by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 6, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 255.
Text constituted from:
Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
0[?Ἡ πόλις]
1Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον
2Διογένην τὸν λαμ-
3πρότατον ἡγεμό-
4να ἔνδοξον ἀν-
5δρεῖον ἁγνὸν φι-
6λάνθρωπον, διὰ
7πάσης ἥκοντα ἀ-
8ρέτης, τὸν ἑαυτῆς
9 scroll εὐεργέτην scroll
9a       vacat
10προνοησαμένων
11τῆς ἀναστάσεως
12τῶν περὶ Μᾶρκον
13Ἀντώνιον Οὐενί-
14διον Ἀπελλᾶν τὸν
15ἀξιολογώτατον ἀρ-
16 scroll χόντων scroll
0[·······]
1ΜΑΡΚΟΝΑΥΡΗΛΙΟΝ
2ΔΙΟΓΕΝΗΝΤΟΝΛΑΜ
3ΠΡΟΤΑΤΟΝΗΓΕΜΟ
4ΝΑΕΝΔΟΞΟΝΑΝ
5ΔΡΕΙΟΝΑΓΝΟΝΦΙ
6ΛΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΝΔΙΑ
7ΠΑΣΗΣΗΚΟΝΤΑΑ
8ΡΕΤΗΣΤΟΝΕΑΥΤΗΣ
9 scroll ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΗΝ scroll
9a       vacat
10ΠΡΟΝΟΗΣΑΜΕΝΩΝ
11ΤΗΣΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΕΩΣ
12ΤΩΝΠΕΡΙΜΑΡΚΟΝ
13ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΝΟΥΕΝΙ
14ΔΙΟΝΑΠΕΛΛΑΝΤΟΝ
15ΑΞΙΟΛΟΓΩΤΑΤΟΝΑΡ
16 scroll ΧΟΝΤΩΝ scroll
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πόλις
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Μᾶρκον
Αὐρήλιον
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Διογέ
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λαμ
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πρότατο
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γεμό
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να
ἔνδοξον
ἀν
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δρεῖον
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πάσης
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ρέ
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εὐεργέτην
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προνοησαμένων
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τῆ
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τῶν
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Ἀντώνιον
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διον
Ἀπελλᾶ
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Translation:

[The City (put up the statue of)] Marcus Aurelius Diogenes, the most splendid governor, distinguished, brave, decent, generous, having achieved all virtue, her benefactor; the archons (led by) the most worthy Marcus Venidius Apellas supervised the erection (of the monument).

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 I.14.

Photographs:

Front face (1976)
 Front face (1976)
Front face (1978)
 Front face (1978)
Top of base (1993)
 Top of base (1993)

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