Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

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14. Honours for a comes

Description

• Monument: White marble statue base shaft, with moulded panels on all four sides (0.60 × 1.35 × 0.54); broken above, and at the right. Standing on a plinth.
• Text: Inscribed within front panel.
• Letters: 0.035; simple, elongated and iregular; lunate sigma, epsilon, cursive omega.
• Date: First half fourth century (lettering, offices).

Text

Translation

[The city has honoured so-and-so] the most splendid comes, friend of the emperors, saviour of the provinces, founder and restorer also of this city.

Photographs

Front face (1972)	Front face (1975)	Front view (1994)	Back of base (1994)

Representations

Transcription by Boulanger: Notebook A, page 55

Commentary

See no 15, and discussion at II.31.

Locations

• Found: Hadrianic Baths: 'angle N(ord)-E(st) du pilier N(ord)' (notebook A); 'devant la sixième colonne du portique O(uest) section N(ord)' (Notebook B).
• Original: ?Findspot.
• Last Recorded: Findspot; standing at the west side of the East court. See Plan 3

History

• Recording: Excavated by Mendel in 1905, copied by Boulanger (Notebook A 55, no. 10, whence B 4-5, no. 5); recorded by the NYU expedition.
• Bibliography: Published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 14, whence PHI 664.
• Text constituted from: Notebooks; copy (Roueché)

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