l. 16, Robert, with considerable reservations (loc. cit., 53 n. 3), wrote ὤπασε πείνᾳ, followed by Livrea, who suggests that the 'hunger' is the result of the poverty which marks an honest judge (45). Peek conjectured ὤπασ' ἐπεῖναι; Merkelbach suggested that πείνᾳ stood for ποινᾷ; we see a faint upright as the last letter in the line.
l. 18, ἐελδομένοισον Peek, Merkelbach.
Translation
Who is this? From where? I am Tatianos from Lycia, who held the highest officies, and by just laws saved cities. But all-conquering time would have destroyed me if my child, of the third generation, who has the same name and similar achievements, had not lifted me up from the ground and set me on a monument, to be seen and admired by all, local inhabitants and strangers alike. It is he who drove deadly ruin from the land of the Carians, and gave justice to dwell among men, when he had been sent from the emperor as a defender for the people, who still rejoice.
Commentary
For the man honoured, Flavius Eutolmius Tatianos see PLRE I Tatianus 5, and the dedications for which he was responsible, 5.217, 4.10 and 4.11; the statue is put up by his descendant, another Tatianos, governor of Caria. See discussion at IV.9.
Locations
Hadrianic Baths, East Court: 'devant ce passage' (Boulanger, referring to the previous entry, ALA 5.204: 'Passage au portique sud de la cour de l'Est').. Original location: Probably findspot.. Last recorded location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court: slightly north of the southern colonnade (1994)..
History of Recording
Excavated by Mendel in 1905; recorded by Boulanger (notebook A, 59, no. 17, whence B, 9, no. 10); recorded by J. and L. Robert in 1946, Found by the current expedition standing in the same position.
Bibliography
Published from Boulanger and his own copy by Robert, Hellenica 4, 47-53, and plate vii, whence BE1949.178; Discussed by W. Peek in Wiss. zu Univ. Halle 4 (1954-5), 217-18, whence SEG1958.661, and by R. Merkelbach in ZPE 6 (1970), 132, whence BE1971.616; published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 37 and plate x, whence McCabePHI Aphrodisias725, Steinepigramme02/09/24. Discussed by E. Livrea, 'I de Taziani in un'iscrizione di Afrodisia', ZPE 119 (1997), 43-49, with D.Feissel, BE1998.646, SEG1997.1555.