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14. Honours for a comes

Description | Text | Translation | Images | Commentary | Location | History


Description

  • Monument: White marble statue base shaft, with moulded panels on all four sides (0.60 × 1.35 × 0.54); broken above, and at the right. Standing on a plinth.
  • Text: Inscribed within front panel.
  • Letters: 0.035; simple, elongated and iregular; lunate sigma, epsilon, cursive omega.
  • Date: First half fourth century (lettering, offices).

Text [Font help][Conventions]

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  τὸν λαμπρ[ότατον]
  κόμιτα v. φίλον τῶ[ν]
  βασιλέων σωτῆ-
  ρα τῶν ἐθνῶν κτί-
στην καὶ ἐπανορθω-
  τὴν καὶ τῆσδε τῆς
  πόλεως vac.

Translation

[The city has honoured so-and-so] the most splendid comes, friend of the emperors, saviour of the provinces, founder and restorer also of this city.

Photographs

Front face (1972) Front face (1975) Front view (1994) Back of base (1994)
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Representations

Transcription by Boulanger: Notebook A, page 55
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Commentary

See no 15, and discussion at II.31.

Locations

  • Found: Hadrianic Baths: 'angle N(ord)-E(st) du pilier N(ord)' (notebook A); 'devant la sixième colonne du portique O(uest) section N(ord)' (Notebook B).
  • Original: ?Findspot.
  • Last Recorded: Findspot; standing at the west side of the East court. See Plan 3

History

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