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Originally published in Roueché (2004).
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Description of Monument
A rectangular white marblestatue base shaft (0.57 × 1.20 × 0.55) with panels within moulded edges on all four sides; the upper left corner of face i., including most of text ii., has been broken off, but survives.
Description of Text
i. Inscribed on the front panel; the text must have begun on a crowning feature now lost. ii. On the opposite face, upside down to i., is a gameboard (type 3Rows.4, 0.47 × 0.97, carefully cut, with circles 0.03, central rosettes in circles 0.085); the text is on the lower moulding, which is now broken away.
Description of Letters
i. 0.025. Ligatures: l. 1, ΝΤ; l.9, ΝΚ; l. 12, ΗΝ; l. 14, ΤΗ; l. 16, ΗΝ; the final letters of ll. 4, 8 are cut on the moulding. ii. Av. 0.025, 0, 0.005, first 1, 0.027; irregular; scroll and letter above line for abbreviations.
Date
i. Probably late second to third centuries A.D. (lettering); ii. Late fifth/sixth century (titulature).
ii. l. 1, The first cross, which is very abraded, was not read by Reinach.
Translation
i. The city honoured Marcus Antonius Popillius Andronikos Flavianos, son of Agelaos the high priest, descendant of high priests of Asia and of high priests at Aphrodisias, cousin of senators and consulars, and descendant of those who joined in the foundation of the city, the chief of the temple-builders of the goddess Aphrodite and a benefactor.
ii. Under Flavius Photios, scholasticus.
Commentary
i. The honouring body or bodies were presumably named on a base capital.
ii. This is the first of the gameboards given by Flavius Photios; see 5.14, 5.15, and discussion at V.44 and V.47.
Locations
Hadrianic Baths: at the northern entrance; 'Thermes, porte d'accès côté du Temple. Dégagé par les travaux' (Reinach)Hadrianic Baths.Museum (1993).
History of Recording
Recorded, complete, by Gaudin (i. 111, ii. 109); by the NYU expedition in two fragments.
Bibliography
i. Published from Gaudin's squeeze by Reinach, 71, whence McCabePHI Aphrodisias71; cited from Reinach by Oikonomos, Arch Delt 1921/22, 294. ii. Published by Reinach, no. 213, from Gaudin, whence Grégoire, IGC264; cited by Roueché (1979), 176, ad no. 1, whence SEG1979.1071, BE1980.473; published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 68 and plate xvii, whence McCabePHI Aphrodisias622; republished by Roueché , Gameboards, no. 2.i.