Description: A white marble columnar
statue base shaft (h: 1.31 × diam: 0.59), broken above.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.03-0.035; Φ in lines 3, 5 and 8, 0.065. Clear, irregular: lunate; scroll for abbreviation.
Date: A.D. 388-392. (emperor, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, North portico: Façade, (Gaudin);
standing at the north side of the east court of the baths, next to 5.216. .
Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, North portico
Last recorded location: Findspot
Interpretive
τὸν ἐκ τῆϲ θείαϲ γονῆϲ
( vac. 2) θεοφιλέϲτατον
( vac. 2) Φλ(άουιον) Ὁνώριον
( vac. 2) τὸν ἐπιφανέϲτατον ((leaf))
5⟦Φ̣λ̣(άουιοϲ) Ε̣ὐ̣τ̣ό̣λ̣μ̣ι̣[ο]ϲ̣ [Τ]α̣τι̣[α]ν̣ὸϲ̣ [ὁ λ]α̣μ̣[πρότα]τοϲ
ἔ̣π̣α̣ρ̣χ̣[ο]ϲ̣ [τοῦ ἱεροῦ π]ρ̣α̣[ιτ]ω̣ρ̣[ί]ου⟧
τῇ ϲυνήθει καθοϲιώϲει
( vac. ) ἀφιέρωϲεν ( vac. 6)
( vac. 1 line)
ἐπὶ Ἀντωνίου Πρίϲκου τοῦ λαμπρ(οτάτου) ἡγεμόνοϲ
Diplomatic
ΤΟΝΕΚΤΗϹΘΕΙΑϹΓΟΝΗϹ
ΘΕΟΦΙΛΕϹΤΑΤΟΝ
ΦΛΟΝΩΡΙΟΝ
ΤΟΝΕΠΙΦΑΝΕϹΤΑΤΟΝ ❦
5⟦.........[.].[.].Τ.[.].Ο.[..]..[.....]ΤΟϹ
.....[.].[.........]..[..]..[.]ΟΥ⟧
ΤΗϹΥΝΗΘΕΙΚΑΘΟϹΙΩϹΕΙ
ΑΦΙΕΡΩϹΕΝ
vacat
ΕΠΙΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΥΠΡΙϹΚΟΥΤΟΥΛΑΜΠΡΗΓΕΜΟΝΟϹ
Apparatus
5-6: In lines 5 and 6 Reinach read nothing; Robert read in line 5, Φλ(- - -) Εὐτόλμιος Τατια[---]. The restoration here is based on very unclear readings.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
Flavius Honorius, of divine descent, most dear to God, the most renowned. ⟦Flavius Eutolmius Tatianos, the clarissimus, prefect of the sacred praetorium ⟧, dedicated (scil. this statue) with the customary devotion, in the time of Antonius Priscus, clarissimus praeses.
Bibliography
Transcription: Gaudin, 1904 11, whence Boulanger, notebooks A, 43, n.5; J. and L. Robert, 1946; New York University expedition
Publication: Reinach, 1906 31 , whence Grégoire, IGC, 1922 281 , Grégoire, 1923 151-154 , whence SEG 4.398 ; Robert, Hellenica IV 49-50 and plate iv, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1949.178 ; Roueché, ALA 25 and Plate vii whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 660 , LSA 167 ALA 2004 25; Smith, 2007 B 31 (description); IAph2007 5.217.
