Description of Monument
A white marble panel, restored from eight fragments, but with the corners and the lower part lost (0.16 × 0.74 × 0.025).
Description of Text
Inscribed on the face.
Description of Letters
0.095; lunate Ε and Σ, l. 1, but square omega, l. 3; scroll for abbreviation.
Date
Sixth century (lettering, ?emperor)
Edition
τὸν εὐσεβέστα
τον καὶ καλλί
νικον ἡμῶν
δεσπότην Φλάουιον
Ἰουστινιανόν
Translation
e.g. The city honours our most pious and splendidly victorious master, Flavius Justinianus.
Commentary
See discussion at VI.5.
Found
Theatre: reused in the southern stretch of the Byzantine defence wall against the east end of the Theatre.
Original Location
Unknown.
Last Recorded Location
Museum.
History of Recording
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1983 during dismantling of the wall.
Bibliography
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 81 and plate xix, whence PHI 663.
Text Constituted From
Transcription (Roueché).
Category of Text
honours; imperial
Category of Monument
panel