36. Verse honours for Anthemius;144. Invocation

Description

Monument: A rectangular base without moulding, recomposed from two fragments (1.05 × 0.61 × 0.575).
Text: 36 is inscribed on the front face, whose rough surface may indicate that a previous inscription had been erased; the surface has been worn away by water at the left side. 144 is cut on the right side, on a surface from which a previous text appears to have been erased, and which is oddly pitted.
Letters: Av. 0.035; irregular, elongated Roughly cut; 0.035-0.065 (phi), cross 0.17.
Date: AD 405/414 (prosopography) Fifth/sixth century or later (lettering)

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	θεμ[.]ιιι[.]καιιιιν σε φάλαγξ ἔστησεν, ὕπαρχε, \|
	ἀντ' εὐεργεσιῶν μικρὰ δίδουσα γέρα \|
	Ἀνθέμιε, [σ]ῴζων γὰρ ὁμοῦ δήμους τε πόλεις τε \|
	ῥύσαο καὶ Καρῶν τάξιν ἀπολλυμένην, \|
	(5) ἣν Βερονικιανὸς διέπων θρόνον \| vac. ἡγεμονῆος vac. \|
	ἤνωγεν τεύχειν εἰκόνα μαρμαρέη[ν].

NaN

	Φῶς cross ΧΜΓ·
	Ζωή.

Translation

36. The array (of the Carians) set up your statue, prefect, giving a small reward for your benefactions; for, Anthemius, saving peoples and cities, you also rescued the order of the Carians, which was being destroyed, to whom (the Carians) Beronicianus, occupying the seat of governor, gave instructions to make a marble statue.

144. Light! Life! M(?ary) b(?ore) Ch(?rist).

Apparatus

36: l.1: Perhaps Καρῶν σε φάλαγξ, although this seems clumsily repetitious.

144: There are traces around the cross which might be decoration or a monogram.

Line 1: perhaps Χ(ριστὸν) Μ(αρία) Γ(εννᾳ)

Photographs

36: Face (1978) 144: Face 144: Detail (1978) Top of base (1993)

Commentary

For 36 see discussion at IV.4. The man honoured is the PPO Anthemius (405-414; PLRE II, Anthemius 1); for Beronicianus see also List of Governors, Beronicianus.

For the Carians - that is, the provincial assembly of the province of Caria - see discussion at II.37.

For 144 see discussion at VIII.16 and VIII.20.

Locations

Found: South Agora: Agora Gate: during excavation of the collecting pool.
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Museum.

History

Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1977 (77. 76, SBI 47).
Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 36, and plate ix, whence PHI 716, Steinepigramme 02/09/04 and discussion, •Feissel (1991), 372; Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no 144 and plate xxxiv, whence PHI 779.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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