MAMA XI 102 (Akmoneia) 
Honorific base for Aelia Polla
- Type of monument:
- Honorific base.
- Location:
- Ahat (Akmoneia): outside a house.
- Description:
- White marble base moulded above and below, bored vertically for use as a water pipe. Broken behind and below.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.36; W. 0.63 (upper moulding 0.70); Th. 0.60+ (upper moulding 0.63+); letters 0.025-0.035.
- Record:
- Line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1955/102).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Second century AD.
ἀγαθῇ τύχηι·
ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος
ἐτείμησαν Αἰλίαν
Πῶλλαν ἀρετῆς ἕνεκεν
With good fortune. The council and the people honoured Aelia Polla, for the sake of her virtue.
Illustrations:
Photograph of MAMA XI 102 (Akmoneia 4: 1955-102)
Line drawing of MAMA XI 102 (Akmoneia 4: 1955-102)
The honorand appears not to be attested elsewhere; the gentilician Aelia may suggest a date subsequent to the reign of Hadrian. The mason originally inscribed only ἀρετῆς ΕΝ in the final line, through haplography. Since he had calculated the spacing of the text so as precisely to fill the space available, when he later came to add the final four letters (-εκεν), he had to squeeze in the final two letters (-εν) in a minuscule hand.