Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

65. The city honours Vitianus, governor

Description

Monument: A rectangular white marble statue base shaft (0.86 × 0.47 × 0.40) with panels within moulded edges on three sides.
Text: Inscribed on the central panel; on the right side panel the letters ΤΑ have been cut.
Letters: 0.02-0.03; irregular, and in varying forms; abbreviations: scroll above line in l. 4; letter above line in l. 5; there are apparently superfluous letters in lines 7 and 9.
Date: Late fifth/early-mid sixth century (offices; titles).

Text

	[? cross ] ἡ λαμπρὰ καὶ
	περιφανὴς Ἀφροδι -
	σιέων μητρόπολις
	Βιτιανὸν τὸν λαμπρ(ότατον)
5	σχο(λαστικὸν) καὶ ὑπα(τικὸν) τὸν οἰκῖον
	εὐεργέτην καὶ
	ἀγωνοθέτην α
	ἀνέθηκεν
	vacat
10	leaf α

Translation

The splendid and well-known metropolis of the Aphrodisians set up (this statue of) Vitianus, clarissimus scholasticus and consular, their own benefactor and agonothete.

Apparatus

l.1: Whatever stood at the beginning of the line—the outline suggests a cross—has been deeply erased.

l.7: The Α at the end of the line, which conforms to the other letters, might be a numeral or a false start in writing ἀνέθηκεν.

1.9: The Α is very roughly written, and has the appearance of a rough graffito addition.

Photographs

Base	Right side (1993)	Top (1993)	Top (1994)

Representations

Squeeze (1972)

Commentary

See discussion at V.38.

For Vitianus see List of Governors, Vitianus.

Locations

Found: Theatre: north scaena.
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Museum.

History

Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1970 (70.226, SBI 26).
Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 65 and plate xvi, whence PHI 669.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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