Description:
A rectangular white marble statue base shaft (H. 1.21 × W. 0.60 × D. 0.575); panels within moulding on four sides (W. 0.40 x H. 0.98).
Text:
Inscribed on two opposite faces within the panels.
Letters:
i. Unpublished. ii. 0.03-0.04; Φ, 0.055; elongated and clear cut; similar to 8.405; scroll for abbreviation.
Date:
A.D. 364 (reign).
Findspot:
Theatre: re-used in the central stretch of the Theatre defence wall.
Original Location:
re-used in the Tetrastoon, west portico in the fourth century: a rectangular plinth, on which this base probably stood, is in position, against a column of the west portico of the tetrastoon, just south of the probable plinth of 8.405. .
Last recorded location:
Museum (2004).
History of discovery:
Excavated in 1972 by the NYU expedition (72.54).
Bibliography:
i. Unpublished. ii. cited by J. R. Martindale, Historia 29 (1980), 494; published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 21 and Plate vi, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 658.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
ii
1Φλ(άουιον) Κλ(αύδιον) Βάλητα
2 v. Αὔγουστον
3Ἀντ(ώνιος) Τατιανὸς
4ὁ λαμπρ(ότατος) ἡγεμὼν
5ἐπαρχείας
6 v. Καρίας leaf
ii
1ΦΛΚΛΒΑΛΗΤΑ
2 ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΝ
3ΑΝΤΤΑΤΙΑΝΟΣ
4ΟΛΑΜΠΡΗΓΕΜΩΝ
5ΕΠΑΡΧΕΙΑΣ
6 ΚΑΡΙΑΣ leaf
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Φλ
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άουιον
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Κλ
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αύδιον
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Βάλητα
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Αὔγουστον
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Ἀντ
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ώνιος
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</expan>
Τατιανὸς
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<abbr>
λαμπρ
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<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ότατος
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ἡγεμὼν
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ἐπαρχείας
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Καρίας
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Translation:

Antonius Tatianos, clarissimus praeses of the province of Caria (set up this statue of) Flavius Claudius Valens, Augustus.

Commentary:

i. No commentary yet (2007)

ii. See discussion at ala2004 III.10.

Photographs:

Face ii. (1972)
 Face ii. (1972)
Face ii. (2004)
 Face ii. (2004)
Face ii., left side and top (2004)
 Face ii., left side and top (2004)
Top of base (1993)
 Top of base (1993)

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