62. The city honours Fl. Palmatus, governorCharlotte M. Roueché2004EnglishFrenchAncient GreekLatin2004-06-09Gabriel BodardChecked and fixed all image divs and refs2004-03-24Gabriel BodardCompleted lemmatisation, checked figure ids, tagged keywords2003-11-04John LavagninoConverted beta code to Unicode2003-07-17Juan Garcéslemmatised2003-08-23CMRtagged and corrected2004-01-28CMRtidied; image refs
Description of 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.
Description of Text
Inscribed on upper moulding (line 1) and on face below (lines 2 ff.)
Description of 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, line above second Ο in ΕΠΑΙΧΟ.
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 clarissima metropolis of the Aphrodisians, set up this statue of Palmatus in gratitude.
Commentary
See also 63 and discussion at V.33.
For Palmatus see List of Governors, Palmatus.
For Atheneus see List of Local officials, Atheneus.
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 Location
Findspot.
Last Recorded Location
Findspot; statue in Museum.
History of Recording
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1972 (SBI 1) together with its accompanying statue.
Bibliography
Published by Erim in Porträtplastik, 238, no. 208, whence An.Ép.1977.605; by Roueché (1979), 173 with plate, whence SEG1979.1070, BE1980.473, SEG1982.1102; republished by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 62 and plate xvi, whence PHI670.
Statue published by Erim, Porträtplastik, 236 - 8, no. 208; discussed by Smith (1999), 168 and fig. 9, plate iii.