Description:
Black and white floor mosaic.
Text:
Set within Tabella ansata (H. 0.47 × W. 1.42), which is broken away to left.
Letters:
Lunate 0.07-0.08.
Date:
A.D. 365/370 (prosopography).
Findspot:
Basilica: at the north-west corner, in the floor of niche at the 7th intercolumniation from the north. .
Original Location:
Basilica.
Last recorded location:
Museum.
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1988 (88.21).
Bibliography:
Published by •K. T. Erim, Aphrodisias Papers 27, p. 28 whence SEG 1996.1398, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 609, cited Anatolian Studies 39 (1989), 175-7, 177, whence BE 1989.138, 1989.517; republished by •Roueché (2004), 235.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1[Φλ(άβιος) Κ]ω̣νστάντιος
2[ὁ λ]αμ̣πρότατος
3[ἡ]γ̣εμὼν καὶ τοῦτο τὸ
4[ἔ]ργο̣ν̣ ἐποίησεν
1[········]·ΝΣΤΑΝΤΙΟΣ
2[··]Α·ΠΡΟΤΑΤΟΣ
3[·]·ΕΜΩΝΚΑΙΤΟΥΤΟΤΟ
4[·]ΡΓ··ΕΠΟΙΗΣΕΝ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<expan>
<abbr>
Φλ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
άβιος
</supplied>
</expan>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Κ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ω
</unclear>
νστάντιος
<lb n="2" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
λ
</supplied>
α
<unclear reason="damage" >
μ
</unclear>
πρότατος
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
γ
</unclear>
εμὼν
καὶ
τοῦτο
τὸ
<lb n="4" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
ργ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ον
</unclear>
ἐποίησεν
</ab>

Translation:

[Flavius C]onstantius, the clarissimus praeses, made this work also.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 III.16

Photographs:

Face (1988)
 Face (1988)
Face (1988)
 Face (1988)
Basilica: west portico, from north (2004)
 Basilica: west portico, from north (2004)
Basilica, from north (2004)
 Basilica, from north (2004)

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