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4. Honours for Licinius Valerianus
Description | Text | Translation | Images | Commentary | Location | History
Description
- Monument:
Three adjoining fragments of a white marble statue base shaft with a moulded panel on one face. a, an upper right corner fragment,
has lines 1-6 (0.23 × 0.33 × 0.30);
b, a fragment with the left side moulding surviving has lines 6-20 (0.38 × 0.53 × 0.34);
c, the lower part of the block, with moulding surviving on both sides and below, has lines 16-20 (0.46 × 0.46 × 0.54).
- Text:
Inscribed within the panel; the last letter is cut on the moulding in lines 5, 6, 17, 18 and (presumably) 10.
- Letters:
ll. 1-15. 0.025; ll 16-20, 0.022-0.023.
Ligatures: ΗΝ, l.8; ΤΗ, l.9; ΝΕ, l. 19.
- Date:
AD 253-260
(content).
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[ἡ πόλις]
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[...]ον Λι- |
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[κίννιο]ν Οὐα-
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[λεριαν]ὸν υἱ |
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[ὸν καὶ ἀ]δελ- |
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[φὸν τῶ]ν Σεβα- |
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[στῶν τ]ὸν ἑαυ- |
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[τ]ῆς εὐεργέ-
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την, προνοη-
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σαμένου τῆς |
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ἀναστάσεω[ς] |
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τοῦ ἀξιολο- |
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γωτάτου Ἀν- |
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τωνίου Νει- |
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κομάχου τοῦ
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πατρὸς τοῦ πρώ- |
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του ἄρχοντος
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Ἀντωνίου Κλαυ- |
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δίου Νεικομάχου |
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ἀρχιερέων ἐκγό-
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scroll νου scroll
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Translation
[The city (has honoured) ...]us Li[cinius] Va[lerian]us, son and brother of the Augusti, her benefactor; the most worthy Antonius Nicomachus, father of the first archon Antonius
Claudius Nicomachus, offspring of high-priests, supervised the erection (of the monument).
Photographs
| Upper right corner (1976)
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Upper right corner (1980) |
Centre right (1976) |
Lower left corner (1976) |
Lower left corner (1980) |
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Commentary
See discussion at I.10; for Nicomachus see Local Officials, Nicomachus.
Locations
- Found:
Temple-Church: loose finds, probably from a base re-used in the bema wall.
- Original:
Unknown.
- Last Recorded:
Museum and findspot.
History
- Recording:
b recorded by Kubitschek (K V.18, Abklatsch 23); by Gaudin (48); by the MAMA expedition; that and two further fragments (a and c) found by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
Fragment published by •Reinach, no. 90, from Gaudin and by •Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 509; all fragments published by •Roueché (1981), no. 3, whence SEG 1981.906, BE 1982.357; An.Ép. 1981.767; republished by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 4, whence PHI 211.
Discusssion: Christol & Drew-Bear, Travaux & Recherches 1982, 35 no. 32, Zaccaria, Sodalitas (Festschrift Guarino) vol. 2, 697-709, An.Ép. 1984.884.
- Text constituted from:
Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).
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