Description: A white marble columnar
statue base shaft (h: 1.03 × diam: 0.54). The surface has been even more severely damaged by weather and moss than that of
4.10.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Av. 0.035; Φ, 1, 5, 0.07; simple, lunate. Scroll for abbreviation.
Date: 388/392 CE (emperor, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Place of Palms/South Agora: West Portico: 'Galerie de l'E(st). Colonne à d(roite) de la porte la plus(?) au N(ord), de l'en[---] ' (Boulanger, notebook A): 'à droite de la porte' (Boulanger, Notebook B). Found by the current expedition standing apparently in situ in the west portico of the South Agora
(although Grégoire, from Mendel's notes, describes it as found fallen near its plinth),
flanking, on the north, the steps which descend from the east court of the Hadrianic Baths to the portico.
Original location: Place of Palms/South Agora: West Portico
Last recorded location: Findspot
Interpretive
Ἀγαθῇ Τύχῃ
( vac. 1 line)
τ̣ὸν τῆϲ ὑφ' ἡλίῳ γῆϲ
αὐτοκράτορα καὶ τροπεοῦ̣χ̣ο̣ν̣
δεϲπότην ἡμῶν
5Φλ(άουιον) Οὐαλλεντινιανὸν
τ̣ὸν αἰώνιον Αὔγουϲτον
( vac. 1 line)
⟦Φ̣λ̣(άουιοϲ) [Εὐ]τ̣ό̣λ̣[μι]οϲ [Τα]τ̣ι̣[ανὸϲ]
[ὁ λαμ]π̣ρ̣(ότατοϲ) ἔπ[αρχ]ο̣ς̣ [τ]ο̣ῦ̣ ἱ̣[ε]ρ̣[οῦ]
[πρετωρί]ου τ̣ῇ̣ σ̣υ̣[νήθει]
10[καθοϲιώϲει ἀ]φ̣[ιέρωϲεν]
( vac. 1 line)
ἐ̣π̣[ὶ Ἀντωνίου Πρίϲκου]
[τοῦ λαμπρ(οτάτου) ἡγεμόνοϲ]⟧
Diplomatic
ΑΓΑΘΗΤΥΧΗ
vacat
.ΟΝΤΗϹΥΦΗΛΙΩΓΗϹ
ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑΚΑΙΤΡΟΠΕΟ....
ΔΕϹΠΟΤΗΝΗΜΩΝ
5ΦΛΟΥΑΛΛΕΝΤΙΝΙΑΝΟΝ
.ΟΝΑΙΩΝΙΟΝΑΥΓΟΥϹΤΟΝ
vacat
⟦..[..]...[..]ΟϹ[..]..[....]
[....]..ΕΠ[...]..[.]...[.].[..]
[.......]ΟΥ....[.....]
10[...........].[.......]
vacat
..[................]
[................]⟧
Apparatus
5: Mendel apparently did not copy Φλ or the superfluous λ in Οὐαλλεντινιανόν; Boulanger recorded both.
7-12: have been erased. Grégoire was unaware of this erasure; Mendel saw three lines erased, Boulanger recorded two. Our readings
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 Valentinianus the eternal Augustus. ⟦Flavius Eutolmius Tatianos.
clarissimus, prefect of the sacred praetorium, dedicated (this statue) with the customary devotion, in the time of Antonius Priskos, clarissimus praeses.⟧
Bibliography
Transcription: Mendel, 1905; Boulanger, notebooksA, 61, no. 22, whence B, 3, no. 2; J. and L. Robert, 1946; New York University expedition 75.248
Publication: Mendel, 1914 506.2 , whence Grégoire, IGC, 1922 276 ; from Boulanger's notes and his own copy Robert, Hellenica IV 50-51 , whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1949.178 ; Roueché, ALA 27 and Plate vii, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 662, LSA 166 ALA 2004 27; Smith, 2007 B 32 (description); IAph2007 4.11.
