Description of Monument

A white marble statue base shaft (0.42 × 1.77 × 0.46) which is broken below and at the top left-hand corner. The inscribed face was turned inwards when the stone was re-used, and has been revealed only by the collapse of the adjoining wall; only the upper part is visible, to about 0.70 from the upper edge.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Description of Letters

Based on the standard square script of the second and third centuries, but with some new features; Ν and Η each have a decorative crossbar (Ν throughout, Η in l. 5 but not in l. 1); omega is in an unusual form; and there is a square sigma in line 5. The lettering of the last two lines is less correct. The interlinear space, 0.015 between lines 1-3, increases to 0.04-0.05 between lines 3-5, giving an inelegant overall appearance; a possible explanation is that the mason initially omitted l. 2, and then inserted it.

Date

A.D. 293-311 (reigns).

Edition ὑπὲρ τῆς τῶν κυρίων Αὐτοκρα τόρων καὶ Καισάά ρων αἰωνίου διαμονῆς

Apparatus

The letters highlighted were recorded by Paris and Holleaux and Reichel, but had been lost when the stone was read in the 1970s.

Translation For the eternal endurance of the lords Imperators and Caesars.

Commentary

See further discussion at II.17.

Locations

Walls, North-east: re-used in the wall at the north-east corner of the Stadium. .Unknown. Findspot (1975)..

History of Recording

Copied by Paris and Holleaux; by Reichel, 5 June 1893 (R.I.12b); recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Paris & Holleaux, no. 9; by Roueché, no. 9, whence McCabe 152.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché); Reichel notebook; publication.

Photographs

Front face (1975)

Front face (1975)

View in situ (1975)

Representations

Squeeze

Reichel notebook I, page 12 (1893)