Description of Monument

A white marble statue base shaft, complete on all sides (0.51 × 1.16 × 0.46).

Description of Text

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

Description of Letters

ll. 1-9, 0.027; ll. 10-16, 0.025. Ligatures: ΝΗΝ, l.2; ΝΗ, l. 3; ΤΗ, ll.8, 11; ΝΤ, l. 14.

Date

AD 253-260 (content).

Edition Ἡ πόλιςΜᾶρκον ΑὐρήλιονΔιογένην τὸν λαμπρότατον ἡγεμόνα ἔνδοξον ἀνδρεῖον ἁγνὸν φιλάνθρωπον, διὰπάσης ἥκοντα ἀρέτης, τὸν ἑαυτῆς εὐεργέτην προνοησαμένωντῆς ἀναστάσεωςτῶν περὶ ΜᾶρκονἈντώνιον Οὐενίδιον Ἀπελλᾶν τὸνἀξιολογώτατον ἀρχόντων

Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

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 I.14; for Diogenes, see List of Governors, M. Aur. Diogenes.

Found

City walls: reused in the southern stretch, section excavated in 1975.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Museum.

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.327; statue base index 36).

Bibliography

Published by Roueché (1981), 5, whence 1981.909; 1982.357; 1981.769; by Roueché, no. 6, whence 255.

Photographs

Front face (1976)

Front face (1978)

Top of base (1993)

Category of Text

honours; governor

Category of Monument

Statue base shaft