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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  • Text: a bears an inscription honouring Septimius Severus (unpublished); 28 was cut on face b.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).

Text [Font help][Conventions]

  Ἀντ(ώνιος) Πρίσκος [λαμ]-
  πρ(ότατος) ἡγ[εμὼν ?v. ἐν]
  τῇ μητρο[πόλει ?v.]
  ἀνέθηκε[ν ...]

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

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