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235. Building inscription by Fl. Co[n]stantius, governor

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Description

  • Monument: Black and white floor mosaic.
  • Text: Set within tabella ansata (0.47 × 1.42), which is broken away to left.
  • Letters: Lunate 0.07-0.08.
  • Date: AD 365/370 (prosopography).

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  [Φλ(άβιος) Κ]ωνστάντιος
  [ὁ λ]αμπρότατος
  [ἡ]γεμὼν καὶ τοῦτο τὸ
  [ἔ]ργον ἐποίησεν

Translation

[Flavius C]onstantius, the clarissimus praeses, made this work also.

Photographs

Face (1988) Face (1988) Basilica: west portico, from north (2004) Basilica, from north (2004)
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Commentary

See discussion at III.16

For Flavius Constantius see 22 and List of Governors Constantius.

Locations

  • Found: Basilica: at the north-west corner, in the floor of niche at the 7th intercolumniation from the north. See plan 2.
  • Original: Findspot.
  • Last Recorded: Museum.

History

  • Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1988 (88.21).
  • Bibliography: Published by •K. T. Erim, Aphrodisias Papers 27, p. 28 whence SEG 1996.1398, PHI 609, cited Anatolian Studies 39 (1989), 175-7, 177, whence BE 1989.138, 1989.517.
  • Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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