5.216. Honours for Aelia Flaccilla
- Description:
- A white marble columnar statue base shaft (H. approx H. 1.30, diam. 0.55), broken in two.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face: the surface is chipped (as it already was in 1904) at the upper left corner of the inscription.
- Letters:
- Av. c. 0.03; slightly elongated; decorative serifs.
- Date:
- A.D. 383-386 (prosopography, titulature).
- Findspot:
- Hadrianic Baths, East Court: Thermes, façade (Gaudin). At the north side of the east court of the baths, next to 5.217.
- Original Location:
- Findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1994).
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Gaudin (104) and noted by Boulanger (Notebook A, 43); the stone appears subsequently to have broken into two fragments, of which the lower was recorded by J. and L. Robert in 1946. Both fragments were recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by •Reinach, 30, from Gaudin, whence IGC 280, ILS 9466; by L. Robert, Hellenica 4, 14 and plate v; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 23 and Plate vi, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 659.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché); publications. This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1[τ]ὴν αἰωνίαν καὶ θεοφιλε-
- 2[σ]τάτην Αὔγουσταν v. Αἰλίαν
- 3Φλαβίαν v. Φλακκ̣ίλλαν
- 4τὴν δέσποιναν τῆς οἰκουμένης
- 5Κᾶρες ἵδρυσαν ἐν τῇ v. ἑαυτῶν
- 6 vac. μητροπόλει vac.
- 7 vac. cross vac.
- 1[·]ΗΝΑΙΩΝΙΑΝΚΑΙΘΕΟΦΙΛΕ
- 2[·]ΤΑΤΗΝΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΑΝ ΑΙΛΙΑΝ
- 3ΦΛΑΒΙΑΝ ΦΛΑΚ·ΙΛΛΑΝ
- 4ΤΗΝΔΕΣΠΟΙΝΑΝΤΗΣΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΗΣ
- 5ΚΑΡΕΣΙΔΡΥΣΑΝΕΝΤΗ ΕΑΥΤΩΝ
- 6 ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΙ
- 7 cross
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τάτην
Αὔγουσταν
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ίλλαν
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Apparatus
1.7. The cross, faintly cut on the base below the inscription, was first observed by the Roberts; it is not certainly associated with the text.
Translation:
The Carians set up in their own metropolis the (statue of ) the eternal Augusta, most dear to God, Aelia Flavia Flacilla, the mistress of the inhabited world.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 III.21.
Photographs:
- Upper part (1972)
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- Upper part (1972)
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- Lower part (1972)
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- Lower part (1994)
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- Top of base (1994)
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- Top of base (1994)
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