Description of Monument

Upper part of a white marble statue base with upper moulding on at least three sides (shaft 0.62 - top 0.70 × 0.40 × 0.70), broken below; the moulding has been chipped away roughly for re-use.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.025-0.03

Date

14-37 A.D. (reign)

Edition Τιβέριον Καίσαρα θεοῦ υἱὸν Σεβαστὸν Ἰουλία Παῦλα καὶ Ἰουλία θυγάτερες

Apparatus

l.3, Ιουλια R, MAMA; only the top serifs of the last letters are visible.

l.4, Only the tops of the letters are visible.

Translation

Tiberius Caesar Augustus son of (the) god: Julia Paula and Julia [ . .? . . ] daughters [of . . ? . . put up his statue]

Commentary

The layout suggests two sisters (the cognomen of the second at the beginning of l.3) whose father's name appeared in l.5.

A Julia Paula of the early third century A.D. is described on her tomb (12.909 =MAMA 564) as a descendant of those responsible for the city's autonomy, τῶν συναιτίων τῇ πόλει τῆς αὐτονομία, in view of which it is tempting to relate her to Julius Zoilos, together, perhaps, with this earlier Julia Paula.

Locations

Reused in the south east stretch of the Walls, South-east, south of the South-east gate, near 12.515 (MAMA 447), 12.510 (430), 12.516 (599). in situ Unknown

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; publications.

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (75); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition in 1977.

Bibliography

Published by Reinach, from Gaudin, 25; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 434, whence McCabe 200.

Photographs

Face (1973)

Face (1983)