4. Honours for Licinius ValerianusCharlotte M. Roueché2004EnglishFrenchGermanAncient GreekModern GreekItalianLatinSpanishTurkish2004-06-08Gabriel BodardChecked and fixed all image divs and refs2004-03-16Gabriel BodardCompleted lemmatisation, checked figure ids, tagged keywords2003-11-04Gabriel BodardCorrected errors in Greek2003-11-04John LavagninoConverted beta code to Unicode2003-05-27Gabriel Bodardtidied and corrected2003-04-30Juan Garcéstidied and corrected2003-06-21CMRtagged, tidied and corrected2003-07-14JLGLemmatised2003-08-20CMRname tags reduced2004-01-16CMRtidied; images entered2003-05-27Gabriel BodardTyped and marked-up Greek
Description of Monument
Three adjoining fragments of a white marble statue base shaft with a moulded panel on one face. a, an upper right corner fragment, has lines 1-6 (0.23 × 0.33 × 0.30);
b, a fragment with the left side moulding surviving has lines 6-20 (0.38 × 0.53 × 0.34);
c, the lower part of the block, with moulding surviving on both sides and below, has lines 16-20 (0.46 × 0.46 × 0.54).
Description of Text
Inscribed within the panel; the last letter is cut on the moulding in lines 5, 6, 17, 18 and (presumably) 10.
Translation
The city has honouredus Licinius Valerianus, son and brother of the Augusti, her benefactor; the most worthy Antonius Nicomachus, father of the first archon Antonius Claudius Nicomachus, offspring of high-priests, supervised the erection of the monument.
Commentary
See discussion at I.10; for Nicomachus see Local Officials, Nicomachus.
Found
Temple-Church: loose finds, probably from a base re-used in the bema wall.
Original Location
Unknown.
Last Recorded Location
Museum and findspot.
History
b recorded by Kubitschek (K V.18, Abklatsch 23); by Gaudin (48); by the MAMA expedition; that and two further fragments (a and c) found by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography
Fragment published by Reinach, no. 90, from Gaudin and by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 509; all fragments published by Roueché (1981), no. 3, whence SEG1981.906, BE1982.357; An.Ép.1981.767; republished by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 4, whence PHI211.