MAMA XI 135 (Pentapolis) 
Honorific statue-base for Nerva with Latin inscription
- Type of monument:
- Imperial statue-base.
- Location:
- Menteş (Pentapolis): low down in the west corner of the tekke of Menteş-Baba.
- Description:
- Plain limestone block, buried below.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.46+; W. 0.58; Th. 0.55; letters 0.042-0.055.
- Record:
- Drawing; squeeze; MB notebook copy; photograph (1955/76).
- Publication:
- Ramsay, Phrygia II 704, no. 640; (CIL III 12238).
- Date:
- AD 97 (imperial titles).
Imp(eratori) Nerva(e) Cae[s](ari)
Aug(usto) pont(ifici) max(imo)
trib(unicia) pot(estate) p(atri) p(atriae) III
co(n)s(uli) civitas
5 vac. Stectoren(orum) [ vac. ]
vac.
Line 1: CAES Ramsay.
The city of the Stektorenoi, to Imperator Nerva Caesar Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, vested with the tribunician power, pater patriae, consul for the third time.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 135 (Pentapolis 3: 1955-76)
Squeeze of MAMA XI 135 (Pentapolis 3: 1955-76)
Line drawing of MAMA XI 135 (Pentapolis 3: 1955-76)
As Ramsay correctly notes, the sequence p(atri) p(atriae) III cos in lines 3-4 must be an error for cos III p(atri) p(atriae). The inscription therefore dates between January and September AD 97 (Kienast 1996: 120).
On the basis of this inscription, Ramsay identified Stektorion with the ancient site at Kocahüyük, three kilometres NE of Menteş (Ramsay, Phrygia II 689). The attribution is probable, though not absolutely certain: cf. Habicht 1975: 87; TIB Phrygien 389, s.v. Stektorion.