Description: The upper part of a white marble columnar
statue base shaft (h: 0.66 × diam: 0.565) with a simple moulding above; The stone has weathered very badly and, especially
in the erased area, has been covered in moss which has partially destroyed the surface.
Text:
Inscribed on moulding (l. 1) and on drum (lines 2 ff.).
Letters: Av. 0.03; Φ, l.4, 0.10, line 5, 0.07; simple, lunate; scroll for abbreviation.
Date: A.D. 388/392. (emperor, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Place of Palms/South Agora: West Portico, 'Galerie de l'Est. À gauche de la porte centrale' (Boulanger).
Found by the NYU expedition lying, apparently displaced, to the south of the steps which descend from the east court of the
baths to the portico, and mark its central point.
Original location: Place of Palms/South Agora, West Portico
Last recorded location: Findspot (1994).
Interpretive
Ἀ[γαθῆι] Τύχηι
τὸν τῆϲ ὑφ'ἡλίῳ γῆϲ αὐτοκράτορα
καὶ τροπεοῦχον δεϲπότην ἡμῶν
Φλ(άουιον) Ἀρκάδιον τὸν αἰώνιον Αὔγουϲτον
5⟦Φ̣λ̣(άουιοϲ) Ε̣ὐ̣τ̣ό̣λ[μιοϲ Τατιανὸϲ ὁ λαμπρ(ότατοϲ) ἔπ]α̣ρ̣[χοϲ]⟧
⟦[το]ῦ̣ [ἱερ]ο̣ῦ̣ π[ρε]τ̣[ωρίου τῇ ϲυνήθει]⟧
⟦[καθοϲιώϲει ἀφιέρω]ϲε[ν]⟧
( vac. 1 line)
⟦ἐπὶ Ἀντωνίου Πρίϲκου⟧
⟦τοῦ λαμπρο(τάτου) ἡγεμόνοϲ⟧
Diplomatic
Α[.....]ΤΥΧΗΙ
ΤΟΝΤΗϹΥΦΗΛΙΩΓΗϹΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑ
ΚΑΙΤΡΟΠΕΟΥΧΟΝΔΕϹΠΟΤΗΝΗΜΩΝ
ΦΛΑΡΚΑΔΙΟΝΤΟΝΑΙΩΝΙΟΝΑΥΓΟΥϹΤΟΝ
5⟦......Λ[....................]..[...]⟧
⟦[..].[...]..Π[..].[..............]⟧
⟦[................]ϹΕ[.]⟧
vacat
⟦ΕΠΙΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΥΠΡΙϹΚΟΥ⟧
⟦ΤΟΥΛΑΜΠΡΟΗΓΕΜΟΝΟϹ⟧
Apparatus
1: [Ἀγαθῆι]line omitted by Grégoire Mendel, 1914; Ἀ[γαθῇ] Boulanger, notebooks, Robert, Hellenica IV
2: [αὐτοκράτορα]
5ff: Grégoire was unaware of this erasure. Mendel saw three erased lines, followed by another two, as do we; Boulanger recorded
three erased lines, and read ΟΣ at the end of line 5. The readings given here, from the stone and from a squeeze, are very unclear.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
With Good Fortune, The emperor of (scil. all) the earth under the sun, and our victorious master, Flavius Arcadius the eternal Augustus. ⟦Flavius Eutolmius Tatianos,
clarissimus, prefect of the sacred praetorium, dedicated (scil. this statue) with the customary devotion, in the time of Antonius Priskos, clarissimus Praeses.⟧
Bibliography
Transcription: Mendel, 1905; Boulanger, notebooks A, 51, no. 2, whence B, 3, no. 1; J. and L. Robert, 1946; New York University expedition
Publication: Mendel, 1914 506.1 ; from Mendel's copy Grégoire, IGC, 1922 275 ; from Boulanger's notes and his own copy Robert, Hellenica IV 50-51 , whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1949.178 ; Roueché, ALA 26, and Plate vii, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 661 , LSA 164, ALA 2004 26; Smith, 2007 B 33 (description); IAph2007 4.10.
