Dedication to Constantius II and a Caesar by Fl. Quint. Eros Monaxios
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source date: 355-360 CE, dependent on dating of Caesar.
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Ἀγαθῇ Τύχῃ ὑπὲρ ὑγιείαϲ καὶ ϲωτηρίαϲ καὶ τύχηϲ καὶ νίκηϲ καὶ αἰωνίου διαμονῆϲ τῶν δεϲποτῶν ἡμῶν Φλαουίου Ἰουλίου Κωνϲταντίου Εὐϲεβοῦϲ Ἀηττήτου Ϲεβαϲτοῦ καὶ ἐπιφανεϲτάτου καὶ γενναιοτάτου Καίϲαροϲ Φλάουιοϲ Κυιντίλιοϲ Ἔρωϲ Μονάξιοϲ ὁ διαϲημότατοϲ ἡγεμὼν καὶ ἀπὸ Κρητάρχων τὸν π [...] ἐκ θεμελίων τῇ λαμ πρᾷ καὶ ϲυγγενεῖ Κρητῶν μητροπόλει τῶν Ἀφροδειϲιέων κατεϲκεύ αϲεν [...]

[^a1: at 2: ΤΗΜΗϹ | ΤΙΜΗϹ | Τ[...]ΧΗϹ [but the tau was not copied by any later witnesses, or by us]]

With Good Fortune. For the health and safety and fortune and victory and eternal endurance of our masters, Flavius Julius Constantius, pious unvanquished Augustus, and . the most renowned and most noble Caesar, Flavius Quintilius Eros Monaxios, perfectissimus praeses and former Cretarch, built the gate from the foundations for the splendid metropolis of the Aphrodisians , kin to the Cretans [...]

Propitious (be) Fortune.For the health and safety and honour and victory and everlasting establishment of our lords, Flavius Julius Constantius, the pious, Imperator, the Augustus: and of . . . . . the most illustrious and most noble Caesar: Flavius Quintus Eros Monaxius, the most distinguished Hegemon, and of the number of the Cretarchs, hath, for the illustrious (Metropolis of the Tauropolitans), and one related to the Cretans, (erected this portal) . . .

May fortune be favourable! For the good health, and the safety, and the honours, and the victory, and perpetual welfare of our lords: Flavius Julius Constantius, the Pious, the Never-Vanquished, Augustus and [name erased] the most excellent and noble Caesar, Fl. Quintius Eros Monaxius [?], the most distinguished Governor, and one of the Cretarchae, has erected it on his own expense . . . . . . for the splendid Metropolis of the Tauropolitans, the relations of the Cretans

This inscription, which confronted every traveller who arrived at Aphrodisias before the construction of the new road to Tavas in the late 1960s, is one of the most frequently published from the site. [...] 9; [...]; [...] 14, loose page 46 (first 5 lines); [...]; [...] ; [...] ; [...] 180 [...]; [...] [...], recorded and restored

From von Richter, [...] 73 ; from Sherard and von Richter [...] 2744 ; [...] 159 ; [...] 18 , whence [...] p. 1109; [...] p.35-36 , [...] 46, a new and inaccurate distribution of the lines, which he presented with pride as an improvement on the text of CIG ; [...] 1626 ; [...] 137 (mention) ; [...] p. 170; [...] 426 , on which [...] 158-167 , whence [...] 1966.393 , [...] 1968.507 ; [...] 19 whence [...] 607 , [...] 19 , [...] 12.1001.