Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

6.8. Honours for Flavius Constantius

Description: Marble D shaped statue base, with damaged moulding above and below: w: 0.905 × h: 0.245 × d: 0.48

Text: IInscribed on the upper moulding (line 1) and on the face, which is worn. The last letters of line 2 are tightly squeezed to fit.

Letters: 0.02-0.025

Date: 370-375 CE (prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Basilica: a surface find in the East Field.

Original location: Basilica

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[Ἀγ]αθῇ ( vac. 3) Τύχῃ
Φλ(άβιον) Κωνστάντιον τὸν λαμπρ(ότατον) ἡγεμόνα κτίστη[ν---]
( vac. 20) -κούντων ( vac. 5).

Diplomatic

[..]ΑΘΗ      ΤΥΧΗ
ΦΛΚΩΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΟΝΤΟΝΛΑΜΠΡΗΓΕΜΟΝΑΚΤΙΣΤΗ[.---]
                                        -ΚΟΥΝΤΩΝ          

English translation

Translation source: Stinson, 2016

To Good Fortune (---have honoured or set up the statue of) Flavius Constantius the clarissimus governor, builder/founder [---] (A.Chaniotis)

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 2008

Publication: Smith and Ratté, 2006 23 (mention); LSA 235; Stinson, 2016 5, whence SEG 67.711

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