37. Tatianus, governor, restores the statue of Tatianus, PPO; verse

Description

Monument: A white marble rectangular statue base shaft (1.18 × 0.60 × 0.48) with panels within moulded edges on three sides.
Text: Inscribed on the central panel; last letter in l. 15 cut on right moulding.
Letters: l. 1, 0.045, ll. 2 ff., av. 0.03; elongated, irregular.
Date: First half of the fifth century (prosopography).

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	τίς; πόθεν; ἐκ Λυκίης μέ[ν], \| ἀριστεύσας δ' ἐνὶ θώκοις \|
	Τατιανὸς θεσμοῖς τε δίκης \| πτολίεθρα ξαώσας. vac. \|
	(5) ἀλλά με πανδαμάτωρ χρόν[ος] \| ὤλλυεν, εἰ μὴ ἐμὸς παῖς \|
	ἐξ ἐμέθεν τρίτατος καὶ \| ὁμώνυμος ἔργα θ' ὅμοιο[ς] \|
5	ἐκ δαπέδων ἀνελὼν \| (10) στήλης ἔπι θῆκεν ὁρᾶσθ[αι] \|
	πᾶσιν ἀριζηλον ναέταις \| ξίνοισει θ' ὁμοίως vac. \|
	Καρῶν ἐκ γέης ὃς ἀπήλασε \| λοίγιον ἄτην vac. \|
	(15) τὴν δὲ δίκην μερόπεσιν \| ὁμέστιον ὤπας ἐπεῖναι \|
	πεμφθεὶς ἐκ βασιλῆος \| ἔθ' ἁδομένοισιν ἀρωγός.

Translation

Who is this? From where? (I am) Tatianus from Lycia, who held the highest officies, and by just laws saved cities. But all-conquering time would have destroyed me if my child, of the third generation, who has the same name and similar achievements, had not lifted me up from the ground and set me on a monument, to be seen and admired by all, local inhabitants and strangers alike. (It is) he who drove deadly ruin from the land of the Carians, and gave justice to dwell among men, when he had been sent from the emperor as a defender for the people, who still rejoice.

Apparatus

References in the apparatus are to lines of the inscribed text, in the discussion to verses.

l. 7. Ν corrected from Μ.

l.10. ἐπὶ θῆκειν Peek; ἐπίθηκεν ALA; ἔπι θῆκεν Feissel. ὁπᾶσ[θαι] Robert.

l.15. μερόπεσ[σ]ιν Peek.

I. 16. Robert, with considerable reservations (loc. cit., 53 n. 3), wrote ὤπασε πείνᾳ, followed by Livrea, who suggests that the 'hunger' is the result of the poverty which marks an honest judge (45). Peek conjectured ὤπασ' ἐπεῖναι; Merkelbach suggested that πείνᾳ stood for ποινᾷ; we see a faint upright as the last letter in the line.

l. 18. ἐελδομένοισον Peek, Merkelbach.

Photographs

Face (1976) Face (1994) Top of base (1994)

Representations

Boulanger, Notebook A, page 59

Commentary

For the man honoured, Flavius Eutolmius Tatianus see PLRE I Tatianus 5, and the dedications for which he was responsible, 25, 26 and 27; the statue is put up by his descendant, another Tatianus, governor of Caria (see List of Governors, Tatianus). See discussion at IV.9.

Locations

Found: Hadrianic Baths: East Court: 'devant ce passage' (Boulanger, referring to the previous entry, ALA 74: 'Passage au portique s(ud) de la cour de l'E(st)').
Original: Probably findspot.
Last Recorded: Hadrianic Baths: East Court: slightly north of the southern colonnade.

History

Recording: Excavated by Mendel in 1905; recorded by Boulanger (notebook A, 59, no. 17, whence B, 9, no. 10); recorded by J. and L. Robert in 1946, Found by the current expedition standing in the same position.
Bibliography: Published from Boulanger and his own copy by Robert, Hellenica 4, 47-53, and plate vii, whence BE 1949.178; Discussed by W. Peek in Wiss. zu Univ. Halle 4 (1954-5), 217-18, whence SEG 1958.661, and by R. Merkelbach in ZPE 6 (1970), 132, whence BE 1971.616; published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 37 and plate x, whence PHI 725, Steinepigramme 02/09/24. Discussed by E. Livrea, ''I de Taziani in un'iscrizione di Afrodisia'', ZPE 119 (1997), 43-49, with D.Feissel, BE 1998.646, SEG 1997.1555.
Text constituted from: Publications;Boulanger notebooks; transcription (Roueché)

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