Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

6.4. Building inscription by Fl. Co<n>stantius, governor

Description: Black and white floor mosaic .

Text: Moosaic letters within a tabella ansata (w: 1.42 × h: 0.47), which is broken away to left.

Letters: Lunate, 0.07-0.08.

Date: 365/370 CE (prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Basilica: at the north-west corner, in the floor of niche at the 7th intercolumniation from the north.

Original location: Basilica

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[Φλ(άβιοϲ) Κ]ω̣νϲτάντιοϲ
[ὁ λ]αμ̣πρότατοϲ
[ἡ]γ̣εμὼν καὶ τοῦτο τὸ
[ἔ]ργο̣ν̣ ἐποίηϲεν

Diplomatic

[....].ΝϹΤΑΝΤΙΟϹ
[..]Α.ΠΡΟΤΑΤΟϹ
[.].ΕΜΩΝΚΑΙΤΟΥΤΟΤΟ
[.]ΡΓ..ΕΠΟΙΗϹΕΝ

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

[Flavius C]onstantius, the clarissimus governor, also undertook this work.

English translation

Translation source: ALA 2004

[Flavius C]onstantius, the clarissimus praeses, made this work also.

Commentary

For Flavius Constantius see also 12.101

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 88.21

Publication: Erim, 1989a 176 (mention); Erim, 1990 28 (plate) whence SEG 46.1398 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 609*5 ; Campbell, 1996 187-8 (plate), whence AE 1996.1482, BE 1989.517; ALA 2004 235; IAph2007 6.4; Reynolds, 2008a 3, whence SEG 58.1155 (mention); Smith and Hallett, 2015 167-168; Stinson, 2016 Doc.4

Images

Fig. 1. Face, at excavation (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1988)

Fig. 2. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1988)

Fig. 3. Basilica: west portico, from north (M. Roueché, 2004)

Fig. 4. Basilica, from north (M. Roueché, 2004)