3. Honours for a son of Gallienus Charlotte M. Roueché 2004

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Description of Monument

Two adjoining fragments of a white marble base, without moulding (together 0.46 × 1.08 × 0.42). The upper left corner survives as a separate fragment.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.

Description of Letters

0.025; ligature, l. 3.

Date

AD 256-260 (content).

Edition τὸν ἐπιφανέστατoν Καίσαραἡ λαμπροτάτη Ἀφροδεισιέων πό λις
Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

Translation

the most renowned Caesar; the most splendid city of the Aphrodisians put up his statue.

Commentary

See discussion at I.10.

Found

City walls: reused in the south central stretch, in the excavated area.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Fragment a in Museum, b (the main block) at findspot.

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1976 (a, 76.54; b, unnumbered).

Bibliography

Published by Roueché (1981), 2, whence SEG 1981.907, An.Ép. 1981.766; republished by Roueché in Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 3, whence PHI 212.

Photographs

Upper left corner fragment, a (1976)

Main block, b (1978)

Main block, b (1980)

Main block, b, detail (1980)

Category of Text

imperial: honours

Category of Monument

statue base shaft