79. Acclamation for Scholast[icius]

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

Description

Monument: A white marble capital, with the bust of a man protruding from it (0.25 × 0.62 × 0.705). The head, which has been broken, interrupted the upper rim of the moulding.
Text: The inscription runs in one line on the upper rim, which is broken at the right.
Letters: 0.045; tall and thin.
Date: Fourth/fifth century (lettering).

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cross Felix semper head Scholast[?icius]

Translation

May Scholasticius always be fortunate!

Photographs

Face (1972)

Commentary

See discussion at V.60 and, on acclamations, V.54.

Locations

Found: Village: re-used in a house near the Theatre. Now in the dig-house garden.
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Museum.

History

Recording: Found by the NYU expedition in 1969 during destruction of village houses (69. 308).
Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 79, whence PHI 807.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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