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62. The city honours Fl. Palmatus, governor

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Description

  • Monument: A rectangular white marble base (1.01 × 0.48 × 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.
  • Text: Inscribed on upper moulding (line 1) and on face below (lines 2 ff.)
  • Letters: Av. 0.04, clear but irregular; abbreviations: scroll in ll.5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10: letter above line in ll. 3, 6, 10; l. 6, Κ scroll , line above second Ο in ΕΠΑΙΧΟ.
  • Date: Late fifth/early sixth century (titulature).

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  [ cross ] γαθῆι cross Τύχηι cross
  Τὸν ἀνανεωτὴν
  καὶ κτίστην τῆς μητροπό(λεως)
  καὶ εὐεργέτην πάσης
Καρίας Φλ(άβιον) Παλμᾶτον
  τὸν περίβλ(επτον) ὑπα(τικὸν) κ(αὶ) ἐπαίχο(ντα)
  τὸν τόπον τοῦ μεγαλοπρ(επεστάτου)
  βικαρίου, Φλ(άβιος) Ἀθήνεος
  λαμπρ(ότατος) πατὴρ τῆς
10  λαμπρ(οτάτης) Ἀφροδ(εισιέων) μητροπό(λεως)
  εὐχαριστῶν ἀνέθη -
  vac.κεν leaf

Translation

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 (this statue of Palmatus) in gratitude.

Photographs

Base in position, with ALA 64 (1976) Base in position (1976) Base alone (1980) Text (1972) Back of base (1993)
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Top of base (1993)
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Representations

Statue and base: Drawing: K.Gorkay, from Smith (1999)
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Commentary

See also 63 and discussion at V.33.

For Palmatus see List of Governors, Palmatus.

For Atheneus see List of Local officials, Atheneus.

Locations

  • Found: Tetrastoon: standing against the east side of the northernmost column of the west colonnade; several other inscribed bases (64, and probably 20 and 21) stood in similar positions against other columns of this colonnade; see Plan 6
  • Original: Findspot.
  • Last Recorded: Findspot; statue in Museum.

History

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