Description: A rectangular white marble
statue base shaft (w: 0.48 × h: 1.01 × d: 0.60)
with moulding, broken above and below. The stone was re-used; on the opposite face there is a half-moon in relief, suggesting
that it perhaps had had a religious function.
It stood rather awkwardly on a plinth formed by cutting down another base. The statue is in the museum.
Text:
Inscribed on upper moulding (line 1) and on face below (lines 2 ff.)
Letters: Av. 0.04, clear but irregular; abbreviations: scroll in lines 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10: letter above line in lines 3, 6, 10; line
6, Κ((scroll)) , line above second Ο in ΕΠΑΙΧΟ.
Date: Late fifth/early sixth century. (titulature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Tetrastoon: West portico, standing against the east side of
the northernmost column; several other inscribed bases (8.407, and probably 8.405 and 8.406) stood in similar positions against other columns of this colonnade;
Original location: Tetrastoon: West portico
Last recorded location: Findspot; statue in Museum.
Interpretive
[((Cross))] Ἀ̣γαθῆι ((Cross)) Τύχηι ((Cross))
τὸν ἀνανεωτὴν
καὶ κτίϲτην τῆϲ μητροπό(λεωϲ)
καὶ εὐεργέτην πάϲηϲ
5Καρίαϲ Φλ(άβιον) Παλμᾶτον
τὸν περίβλ(επτον) ὑπα(τικὸν) κ(αὶ) ἐπαίχο(ντα)
τὸν τόπον τοῦ μεγαλοπρ(επεϲτάτου)
βικαρίου, Φλ(άβιοϲ) Ἀθήνεοϲ
ὁ λαμπρ(ότατοϲ) πατὴρ τῆϲ
10λαμπρ(οτάτηϲ)Ἀφροδ(ειϲιέων) μητροπό(λεωϲ)
εὐχαριϲτῶν ἀνέθη-
( vac. 6)κεν ((leaf))
Diplomatic
[.].ΓΑΘΗΙ † ΤΥΧΗΙ †
ΤΟΝΑΝΑΝΕΩΤΗΝ
ΚΑΙΚΤΙϹΤΗΝΤΗϹΜΗΤΡΟΠΟ
ΚΑΙΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΗΝΠΑϹΗϹ
5ΚΑΡΙΑϹΦΛΠΑΛΜΑΤΟΝ
ΤΟΝΠΕΡΙΒΛΥΠΑΚΕΠΑΙΧΟ
ΤΟΝΤΟΠΟΝΤΟΥΜΕΓΑΛΟΠΡ
ΒΙΚΑΡΙΟΥΦΛΑΘΗΝΕΟϹ
ΟΛΑΜΠΡΠΑΤΗΡΤΗϹ
10ΛΑΜΠΡΑΦΡΟΔΜΗΤΡΟΠΟ
ΕΥΧΑΡΙϹΤΩΝΑΝΕΘΗ
ΚΕΝ ❦
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
To Good Fortune. The renewer and founder of the metropolis and benefactor of all Caria, Flavius Palmatus, spectabilis consular, also holding the position of the magnificentissimus vicar; Flavius Atheneus, the clarissimus pater of the most splendid (i.e. clarissima ) metropolis of the Aphrodisians, set up (scil. this statue of Palmatus) in gratitude.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition in 1972, SBI 1, together with its accompanying statue.
Publication: Erim and Reynolds, 1979 208 , whence AE 1979.605 ; by Roueché, 1979 173 with plate, whence SEG 29.1070 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1980.473 , SEG 32.1102 ; Roueché, ALA 62 and plate xvi, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 670 , LSA 199; ALA 2004 62, IAph2007 8.410.
