Description: A rectangular white marble statue base shaft (w: 0.60 × h: 1.21 × d: 0.575); panels within moulding on four sides (w: 0.40 × h: 0.98). A rectangular plinth, on which this base probably stood, is in position, against a column of the west portico of the tetrastoon, just south of the probable plinth of 8.405.
Text: Inscribed on the opposite face to 8.411.
Letters: 0.03-0.04; Φ, 0.055; elongated and clear cut; similar to 8.405; scroll for abbreviation.
Date: 364 CE (reign)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Tetrastoon: re-used in the central stretch of the Theatre Byzantine defence wall.
Original location: Tetrastoon, West portico
Last recorded location: Museum (M. Roueché, 2004).
Translation
Antonius Tatianos, clarissimus praeses of the province of Caria (scil. set up this statue of) Flavius Claudius Valens, Augustus.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition, 72.54
Publication: PLRE Addenda, 1980 494; Roueché, ALA 21 and Plate vi, whence AE 1990.958, McCabe, PHI, 1996 658 , LSA 223; ALA 2004 21; IAph2007 8.406.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 3. Face, left side and top (M. Roueché, 2004)
Fig. 4. Top of base (Lenaghan, 1993)