Description:
A rectangular statue base without moulding, recomposed from two fragments (W. 1.05 × H. 0.61 × D. 0.575).
Text:
i. is inscribed on the front face, whose rough surface may indicate that a previous inscription had been erased; the surface has been worn away by water at the left side. ii. is cut on the right side, on a surface from which a previous text appears to have been erased, and which is oddly pitted.
Letters:
i. Av. c. 0.035; irregular, elongated. ii. Roughly cut; 0.035-0.065 (phi), cross 0.17.
Date:
i. A.D. 405/414 (prosopography); ii. fifth to sixth centuries A.D. or later (lettering)
Findspot:
South Agora, Agora Gate: during excavation of the collecting pool.
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Museum (1993).
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1977 (77.76, SBI 47).
Bibliography:
i. published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 36, and plate ix, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 716, Steinepigramme 02/09/04 and discussion, •Feissel (1991), 372; ii. Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no 144 and plate xxxiv, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 779.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
i
Θ̣Ε̣Μ̣[·]Ι̣Ι̣Ι[·]Κ̣Α̣Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣ΙΝ σε φάλαγξ ἔστησεν, ὕπαρχε, |
   ἀντ' εὐεργεσιῶν μικρὰ δίδουσα γέρα |
Ἀνθ̣έμι̣ε, [σ]ῴ̣ζων γὰρ ὁμοῦ δήμους τε πόλεις τε |
   ῥύσαο κα̣ὶ Καρῶν τάξιν ἀπολλυμένην, |
(5) ἣν Βερον̣ι̣κ̣ια̣ν̣ὸς διέπων θρόνον | v. ἡγεμονῆ̣ος v. |
   ἤνωγεν τεύ̣χειν εἰκόνα μαρμαρέη[ν]
ii
1Φῶς cross Χ(—)Μ(—)Γ(—)·
2Ζωή
i
1···[·]··Ι[·]·····ΙΝΣΕΦΑΛΑΓΞΕΣΤΗΣΕΝΥΠΑΡΧΕ
2ΑΝΤ'ΕΥΕΡΓΕΣΙΩΝΜΙΚΡΑΔΙΔΟΥΣΑΓΕΡΑ
3ΑΝ·ΕΜ·Ε[·]·ΖΩΝΓΑΡΟΜΟΥΔΗΜΟΥΣΤΕΠΟΛΕΙΣΤΕ
4ΡΥΣΑΟΚ·ΙΚΑΡΩΝΤΑΞΙΝΑΠΟΛΛΥΜΕΝΗΝ
5ΗΝΒΕΡΟ···Ι··ΟΣΔΙΕΠΩΝΘΡΟΝΟΝ
6 ΗΓΕΜΟΝ·ΟΣ 
7ΗΝΩΓΕΝΤΕ·ΧΕΙΝΕΙΚΟΝΑΜΑΡΜΑΡΕΗ[·]
ii
1ΦΩΣ cross ΧΜΓ
2ΖΩΗ
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ιι
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ι
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καιιι
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ιν
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σε
φάλαγξ
ἔστησεν
,
ὕπαρχε
,
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ἀντ'
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δίδουσα
γέρα
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έμ
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ε
,
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σ
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ζων
γὰρ
ὁμοῦ
δήμους
τε
πόλεις
τε
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<lb n="4" />
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ῥύσαο
κ
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α
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Καρῶν
τάξιν
ἀπολλυμένην
,
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ἣν
Βερο
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νικ
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ι
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ὸς
διέπων
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εἰκόνα
μαρμαρέη
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ν
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Φῶς
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Χ
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Μ
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Γ
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·
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Ζωή
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Apparatus

i. l. 1, Perhaps Κ̣α̣ρῶ̣ν σε φάλαγξ, although this seems clumsily repetitious.

ii. There are traces around the cross which might be decoration or a monogram.

ii. l. 1, perhaps Χ(ριστὸν) Μ(αρία) Γ(εννᾳ)

Translation:

i. The array (?of the Carians) set up your statue, prefect, giving a small reward for your benefactions; for, Anthemios, saving peoples and cities, you also rescued the order of the Carians, which was being destroyed, to whom (the Carians) Beronikianos, occupying the seat of governor, gave instructions to make a marble statue.

ii. Light! Life! M(ary) b(ore) Ch(rist).

Commentary:

For i. see discussion at ala2004 IV.4. The man honoured is the PPO Anthemios (405-414; PLRE II, Anthemius 1).

For ii. see discussion at ala2004 VIII.16 and ala2004 VIII.20.

Photographs:

i. Face (1978)
 i. Face (1978)
ii. Face
 ii. Face
ii. Detail (1978)
 ii. Detail (1978)
Top of base (1993)
 Top of base (1993)

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