Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

26. Fl. Eutolmius Tatianus honours Arcadius

Description

Monument: The upper part of a white marble columnar base shaft (H. 0.66, din. 0.565) with a simple moulding above; The stone has weathered very badly and, especially in the erased area, has been covered in moss which has partially destroyed the surface.
Text: Inscribed on moulding (l. 1) and on drum (ll. 2 ff.).
Letters: Av. 0.03; Φ, l.4, 0.10, l.5, 0.07; simple, lunate; scroll for abbreviation.
Date: AD 388/392 (emperor, prosopography).

Text

	Ἀ[γαθῆι] Τύχηι·
	τὸν τῆς ὑφ' ἡλίῳ γῆς αὐτοκράτορα
	καὶ τροπεοῦχον δεσπότην ἡμῶν
	Φλ(άουιον) Ἀρκάδιον τὸν αἰώνιον Αὔγουστον
5	Φ̣λ̣(άουιος) Ε̣ὐ̣τ̣ό̣λ[μιος Τατιανὸς ὁ λαμπρ(ότατος) ἔπ]α̣ρ̣[χος]
	[το]ῦ̣ [ἱερ]ο̣ῦ̣ π[ρε]τ̣[ωρίου τῇ συνήθει]
	[καθοσιώσει αφιέρω]σε[ν]
	vacat
	ἐπὶ Ἀντωνίου Πρίσκου
	τοῦ λαμπρο(τάτου) ἡγεμόνος

Translation

With Good Fortune, The emperor of (all) the earth under the sun, and our victorious master, Flavius Arcadius the eternal Augustus. Flavius Eutolmius Tatianus, clarissimus, prefect of the sacred praetorium, dedicated (this statue) with the customary devotion, in the time of Antonius Priscus, clarissimus Praeses.

Apparatus

l.1. [Ἀγαθῆι] Mendel; line omitted by Grégoire; Ἀ[γαθῇ] Boulanger, Robert.

l.2. [αὐτοκράτορα] Grégoire

ll. 5 ff. Grégoire was unaware of this erasure. Mendel saw three erased lines, followed by another two, as do we; Boulanger recorded three erased lines, and read ΟΣ at the end of l.5. The readings given here, from the stone and from a squeeze, are very unclear.

Photographs

View (1975)	View (1965)	Face (1994)	Left side (1994)	Right side (1994)

Top of base (1994)

Representations

Boulanger, Notebook A, page 51 Squeeze (1972) Statue and base: Drawing: K.Gorkay, from Smith (1999)

Commentary

For Flavius Eutolmius Tatianus see PLRE I Tatianus 5. For this group of dedications by him see 25, 27 and discussion at III.24. For Antonius Priscus see List of governors, Priscus, and 25, 27 and 28, with discussion at III.30; for the monument as whole, see Smith (1999), 162.

Locations

Found: South Agora: west portico: Galerie de l'Est. À gauche de la porte centrale (Boulanger). Found by the NYU expedition lying, apparently displaced, in the west portico of the South Agora, to the south of the steps which descend from the east court of the baths to the portico, and mark its central point. See plan 3.
Original: Findspot.
Last Recorded: Findspot.

History

Recording: Excavated and transcribed by Mendel in September 1905; copied by Boulanger (Notebook A, 51, no. 2, whence B, 3, no. 1); copied by J. and L. Robert; recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography: Published by •Mendel, Catalogue, no. 506.1; by Grégoire, IGC 275, from Mendel's copy; by •L. Robert, Hellenica 4, 50-51, from Boulanger's notes and his own copy, whence BE 1949.178; by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, 26, and Plate vii, whence PHI 661. Statue: Published most recently by J. Inan and E. Alföldi, Roman and early Byzantine portait sculpture from Asia Minor (London, 1966), no. 66; discussed by R. R. R. Smith (1999), 162.
Text constituted from: Publications; transcriptions (Boulanger, Roueché).

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Boulanger, Notebook A, page 51	Squeeze (1972)	Statue and base: Drawing: K.Gorkay, from Smith (1999)