Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

3.6. Fl. Pelagius Ioannes gives a column

Description: A white marble column fluted above and smooth below. 'Höhe: 154, Breite: 220.'.

Text: Inscribed on the smooth surface, below the fluting.

Letters: 0.085; irregular, somewhat elongated; abbreviations: scroll in line 1, Ρ above line in line 3.

Date: Later fourth century. (titulature, lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: North Agora; South portico: on the eighth column (counted from the east) 'der Rest der 8. Säule' (Kubitschek). .

Original location: North Agora, South portico

Last recorded location: This remnant has now disappeared, probably into the nearby water channel, which is lined with column fragments

Interpretive

Φλ(αουίου) Πελαγίου
Ἰωάννου
τοῦ λαμπρ(οτάτου)
ἡγεμόνοϲ

Diplomatic

ΦΛ ΠΕΛΑΓΙΟΥ
ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ
ΤΟΥΛΑΜΠΡ
ΗΓΕΜΟΝΟϹ

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

(scil. Gift of?) Flavius Pelagius Ioannes, clarissimus praeses.

Bibliography

Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893, K.III.38, Abklatsch 30

Publication: Cormack, 1964 22 , on which Robert, 1966, 381, AE 1967.489; Roueché, ALA 29 ; McCabe, PHI, 1996 608 ; ALA 2004 29; IAph2007 3.6.

Images

Fig. 1. North Agora, south portico: view (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 2. Kubitschek notebook III, page 38