Description of Monument

White marble statue base with moulding above and below on front and right side, still partly buried, broken away to left (1.07 visible × 0.75 × 0.60).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.04

Date

27 B.C-A.D. 50 (titulature)

Edition Δία Πατρῷον Σεβαστὸν Καίσαρα

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze (checked); publications.

Apparatus

l. 1, Reinach, with an incomplete squeeze, and not knowing that the stone was complete proposed Ἀπόλλωνα Πατρῷον; Robert corrected this (in his first article) and then saw that Kubitschek and Reichel already gave the corect reading.

Translation

(Statue of) Zeus of our Ancestors, Augustus Caesar.

Commentary

For the expression cf: Nero at Smyrna, Smyrna 1, l. 5, Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Ἡρω^ ἀρχιερέως καὶ σεβαστοφάντου καὶ [διὰ βίου ἀγωνοθέτου] θεᾶς Ῥώμης καὶ θεοῦ [Σεβαστοῦ Καίσαρος] Διὸς Πατρ'ου αὐτοκ[ράτορος καὶ ἀρχιερέως] μεγίστου, πατρὸς τῆ[ς πατρίδος καὶ σωτῆρος?] τοῦ σύμπαντος ἀνθ[ρώπων γένους

Halicarnassus: GIBM894, 4-7 Καίσαρα τὸν Σεβαστὸν ἐνεν[κ]αμένη [τ]ὸ[ν] τῷ καθ′ ἡμᾶς εὐδαίμονι βίωι πατέρα μὲν τῆς [ἑαυ]τοῦ πατ[ρ]ίδος θεᾶς Ῥώμης, Δία δὲ πατρῶον καὶ σωτῆρα τοῦ κο[ι] [ν]οῦ τῶν ἀνθρώπων γένους

Locations

Unknown Walls, West: reused south of the West gate. Findspot

History of Recording

Recorded by Kubitschek (KV.13, Abklatsch 44) and by Reichel (RI.5v ); by Gaudin (37); recorded by the MAMA expedition in 1934; recorded by the NYU expedition in 1973 (SBI 97).

Bibliography

Published by Kubitschek & Reichel, AAWW no. 13; by Reinach, from Gaudin, 24, whence Robert, 4 (1930), 26, no. 2, Robert, 8 (1934), 49, note 1, Buckler, 9, 1935, 177-88, 187; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 431; by Reynolds, PCPS 206, 1980, 77, no. 5, whence SEG 1980.1244, 1982.355, McCabe 191.

Photographs

Face (1973)

Representations

Reichel notebook I, 5v

Kubitschek notebook V, 13