41. Verse honours for Dulcitius from Valerianus; 194. Place inscription

Description

Monument: A rectangular base with panels within moulded edges on three sides (1.07 × 0.44 × 0.44).
Text: 41 is cut on the central panel. The final letters, or stops, in ll. 6, 7, 8, 11 and 12 are cut on the moulding. 194, a graffito, is on the left panel, and was apparently left unfinished.
Letters: 41: 0.02-0.03; irregular, elongated, and with traces of red paint. 194: cut with a very shallow, broad line; 0.02 (omicron)-0.05 (cross).
Date: 41: Mid-fifth century (titles, prosopography); 194: Late fifth century or later (lettering).

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	\| ἤθελεν, εἰ θέμις ἦν, \| καὶ χρυσίην τάχα \| μορφὴν vac.
	σῆς \| ἀρετῆς τεύχειν \| (5) ναί, μά σε, Δουλκίτιε, scroll
	\| ὃς πρῶτος στρατίης \| τῆς σῆς πέλε, Βαλεριανός,
	\| οὕνεκεν εὐνομίης \| πύργος ἄρηκτος ἔφυς. scroll
5	\| (10) νῦν δέ σε μαρμάρεον \| στῆσεν προπάροιθε λοετροῦ
	\| μάρτυς σῶν καμάτων \| ἡ λίθος ὄφρα μένοι.

194

	cross τόπος
	αρχεψε
	θρεμοπ
	ο vac.

Translation

If it was permitted, Valerianus, who was the leader of your troop, would have wished to make even a golden image of your virtue - indeed (I swear) by yourself. Dulcitius, because you were an unbroken tower of lawfulness. But now he has set you in marble in front of the baths, so that the stone may remain as a witness of your labours.

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Apparatus

194 is now (since 2002) in a far better position than before.

l.3: For ΕΝΟ in ALA I now read ΕΜΟ; at the end of the line the letter might be Π.

Photographs

41: Front face (1972) 41: Front face 194: Front face (2002)

Commentary

41: see discussion at IV.24; 194: see discussion at XI.11

For Dulcitius, see also 39, 40 and List of Governors, Dulcitius.

Locations

Found: Tetrastoon: re-used in the central stretch of the seventh-century defence wall which blocks off the east façade of the Theatre.
Original: Outside baths - the findspot perhaps suggests the Theatre Baths rather than the Hadrianic Baths.
Last Recorded: Museum.

History

Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1972 (72.200, SBI 54).
Bibliography: Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 41 and plate x, whence PHI 718, Steinepigramme 02/09/09; Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 194, whence PHI 388.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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