Description:
A white marble columnar statue base shaft (H. H. 1.03, diam. 0.54). The surface has been even more severely damaged by weather and moss than that of 4.10.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
Av. 0.035; Φ, 1, 5, 0.07; simple, lunate. Scroll for abbreviation.
Date:
A.D. 388/392 (emperor, prosopography).
Findspot:
South Agora: West portico: 'Galerie de l'E(st). Colonne à d(roite) de la porte la ?plus au N(ord), de l'en[·· ? ··]' (Boulanger, notebook A: 'à droite de la porte', Notebook B). Found by the current expedition standing apparently in situ in the west portico of the South Agora (although Grégoire, IGC 276. from Mendel's notes, describes it as found fallen near its plinth), flanking, on the north, the steps which descend from the east court of the Hadrianic Baths to the portico.
Original Location:
Findspot.
Last recorded location:
Findspot (2002).
History of discovery:
Excavated and transcribed by Mendel in September 1905; copied by Boulanger (Boulanger (Notebook A, 61, no. 22, whence B, 3, no. 2); copied by J. and L. Robert; recorded by the NYU expedition. Statue excavated by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.248).
Bibliography:
Published by •Mendel, Catalogue, no. 506.2; by Grégoire, IGC 276, 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, 27 and Plate vii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 662. Statue: R. R. R. Smith (1999), 162.
Text constituted from:
Publications; Boulanger notebooks; transcription and squeeze (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1Ἀγαθῇ Τύχῃ
1a       vacat
2τ̣ὸν τῆς ὑφ' ἡλίῳ γῆς
3αὐτοκράτορα καὶ τροπεοῦ̣χ̣ο̣ν̣
4δεσπότην ἡμῶν
5Φλ(άουιον) Οὐαλλεντινιανὸν
6τ̣ὸν αἰώνιον Αὔγουστον
6a       vacat
7 [[Φ̣λ̣(άουιος) [Εὐ]τ̣ό̣λ̣[μι]ος [Τα]τ̣ι̣[ανὸς]]
8 [[[ὁ] [λαμ]π̣ρ̣(ότατος) ἔπ[αρχ]ο̣ς̣ [τ]ο̣ῦ̣ ἱ[ε]ρ̣[οῦ]]]
9 [[[πρετωρί]ου τ̣ῇ̣ συ[νήθει]]]
10 [[[καθοσιώσει ἀ]φ̣[ιέρωσεν]]]
10a       vacat
11 [[ἐ̣π̣[ὶ Ἀντωνίου Πρίσκου]]]
12 [[[τοῦ λαμπρ(οτάτου) ἡγεμόνος]]]
1ΑΓΑΘΗΤΥΧΗ
1a       vacat
2·ΟΝΤΗΣΥΦ'ΗΛΙΩΓΗΣ
3ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑΚΑΙΤΡΟΠΕΟ····
4ΔΕΣΠΟΤΗΝΗΜΩΝ
5ΦΛΟΥΑΛΛΕΝΤΙΝΙΑΝΟΝ
6·ΟΝΑΙΩΝΙΟΝΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΝ
6a       vacat
7 [[··[··]···[··]ΟΣ[··]··[····]]
8 [[[·][···]··ΕΠ[···]··[·]··Ι[·]·[··]]]
9 [[[·······]ΟΥ··ΣΥ[·····]]]
10 [[[···········]·[·······]]]
10a       vacat
11 [[··[·················]]]
12 [[[························]]]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Ἀγαθῇ
Τύχῃ
<lb n="1a" />
<space extent="1" unit="line" dim="vertical" />
<lb n="2" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
ὸν
τῆς
ὑφ'
ἡλίῳ
γῆς
<lb n="3" />
αὐτοκράτορα
καὶ
τροπεο
<unclear reason="damage" >
ῦχον
</unclear>
<lb n="4" />
δεσπότην
ἡμῶν
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Φλ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
άουιον
</supplied>
</expan>
Οὐαλλεντινιανὸν
<lb n="6" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
ὸν
αἰώνιον
Αὔγουστον
<lb n="6a" />
<space extent="1" unit="line" dim="vertical" />
<lb n="7" />
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear reason="damage" >
Φλ
</unclear>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
άουιος
</supplied>
</expan>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Εὐ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
τόλ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
μι
</supplied>
ος
<supplied reason="lost" >
Τα
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
τι
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ανὸς
</supplied>
</del>
<lb n="8" />
<del>
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied reason="lost" >
λαμ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
πρ
</unclear>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ότατος
</supplied>
</expan>
ἔπ
<supplied reason="lost" >
αρχ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ος
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
οῦ
</unclear>
<unclear reason="undefined" >
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ε
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ρ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
οῦ
</supplied>
</del>
<lb n="9" />
<del>
<supplied reason="lost" >
πρετωρί
</supplied>
ου
<unclear reason="damage" >
τῇ
</unclear>
<unclear reason="undefined" >
συ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
νήθει
</supplied>
</del>
<lb n="10" />
<del>
<supplied reason="lost" >
καθοσιώσει
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
φ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ιέρωσεν
</supplied>
</del>
<lb n="10a" />
<space extent="1" unit="line" dim="vertical" />
<lb n="11" />
<del>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ἐπ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ἀντωνίου
Πρίσκου
</supplied>
</del>
<lb n="12" />
<del>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τοῦ
<expan>
<abbr>
λαμπρ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
οτάτου
</supplied>
</expan>
ἡγεμόνος
</supplied>
</del>
</ab>

Apparatus

l.5. Mendel apparently did not copy Φλ(?) or the superfluous λ in Οὐαλλεντινιανόν; Boulanger recorded both.

ll. 7-12 have been erased. Grégoire was unaware of this erasure; Mendel saw three lines erased, Boulanger recorded two. Our readings from the stone and from a squeeze are very unclear.

Translation:

With Good Fortune. The emperor of (all) the earth under the sun, and our victorious master, Flavius Valentinianus the eternal Augustus. [[Flavius Eutolmius Tatianos. clarissimus, prefect of the sacred praetorium, dedicated (this statue) with the customary devotion, in the time of Antonius Priskos, clarissimus praeses.]]

Commentary:

For Flavius Eutolmius Tatianos see PLRE I Tatianos 5. For this group of dedications by him see 5.217, 4.10, and discussion at ala2004 III.24. For Antonius Priskos see 5.217, 4.10 and 2.110, and discussion at ala2004 III.30

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)
Face (1973)
 Face (1973)
View (2002)
 View (2002)
Right side(1994)
 Right side(1994)
Left side (1994)
 Left side (1994)
Top of base(1994)
 Top of base(1994)

Representations:

Boulanger Notebook A, page 61
 Boulanger Notebook A, page 61
Statue and base: Drawing: K.Gorkay, from Smith (1999)
 Statue and base: Drawing: K.Gorkay, from Smith (1999)

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