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28. Building inscription of Antonius Priscus
Description | Text | Translation | Apparatus | Images | Commentary | Location | History
Description
- Monument:
Six fragments of a white marble base inscribed on two faces. a (1.06 × 0.77 × 0.355) has moulding cut away above, but surviving below and broken in two halves. b was created on the underside of the base (H.
c. 0.355, W. 0.77) with a simple stepped moulding above, and traces of the same below.
- Text:
a bears an inscription honouring Septimius Severus (unpublished); 28 was cut on face b.
- Letters:
ll.1-2, 0.045-0.05; II. 3-4, 0.05-0.055. Simple, lunate; scroll for abbreviation.
- Date:
AD 388/392 (prosopography).
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Ἀντ(ώνιος) Πρίσκος ὁ [λαμ]-
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πρ(ότατος) ἡγ[εμὼν
?v. ἐν]
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τῇ μητρο[πόλει ?v.]
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ἀνέθηκε[ν ...]
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Translation
Antonius Priscus , clarissimus praeses. set [?this] up (in) the metropolis.
Apparatus
l. 2. The stone has ΠΙ followed by a scroll as abbreviation mark; it is impossible to interpret this except by reading Ι as an error for Ρ, which might be explained if the cutter had confused the scroll with the bowl of the rho.
Photographs
Upper edge fragment (1966) |
Upper edge fragment (1966) |
Lower part (1966) |
Lower part (1972) |
Top of block (2001) |
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Fragment (2004) |
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Commentary
Antonius Priscus was also responsible for putting up texts 25, 26 and 27 (between 388-392). See List of Governors Priscus, and discussion at III.30
Locations
- Found:
Bouleuterion/Odeon: fragments in various locations.
- Original:
Unknown.
- Last Recorded:
Museum.
History
- Recording:
Excavated by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
Published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 28, and plate viii, whence PHI 634.
- Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché).
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