Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

4. Honours for Licinius Valerianus

Description

Monument: Three adjoining fragments of a white marble statue base shaft with a moulded panel on one face. a, an upper right corner fragment, has lines 1-6 (0.23 × 0.33 × 0.30); b, a fragment with the left side moulding surviving has lines 6-20 (0.38 × 0.53 × 0.34); c, the lower part of the block, with moulding surviving on both sides and below, has lines 16-20 (0.46 × 0.46 × 0.54).
Text: Inscribed within the panel; the last letter is cut on the moulding in lines 5, 6, 17, 18 and (presumably) 10.
Letters: ll. 1-15. 0.025; ll 16-20, 0.022-0.023. Ligatures: ΗΝ, l.8; ΤΗ, l.9; ΝΕ, l. 19.
Date: AD 253-260 (content).

Text

	[ἡ πόλις]
	[...]ον Λι-
	[κίννιο]ν̣ Οὐα-
	[λεριαν]ὸν υἱ
	[ὸν καὶ ἀ]δελ-
5	[φὸν τῶ]ν Σεβα-
	[στῶν τ]ὸν ἑαυ-
	[τ]ῆ̣ς εὐεργέ-
	την, προνοη̣-
	σαμένου τῆς
10	ἀναστάσεω[ς]
	τοῦ ἀξιολο-
	γωτάτου Ἀν-
	τωνίου Νει-
	κ̣ομάχου τοῦ
15	πατρὸς τοῦ πρώ-
	τ̣ου ἄρχοντος
	Ἀντωνίου Κλαυ-
	δίου Νεικομάχου
	ἀρχιερέων ἐκγό-
20	scroll νου scroll

Translation

[The city (has honoured) ...]us Li[cinius] Va[lerian]us, son and brother of the Augusti, her benefactor; the most worthy Antonius Nicomachus, father of the first archon Antonius Claudius Nicomachus, offspring of high-priests, supervised the erection (of the monument).

Photographs

Upper right corner (1976)	Upper right corner (1980)	Centre right (1976)	Lower left corner (1976)	Lower left corner (1980)

Commentary

See discussion at I.10; for Nicomachus see Local Officials, Nicomachus.

Locations

Found: Temple-Church: loose finds, probably from a base re-used in the bema wall.
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Museum and findspot.

History

Recording: b recorded by Kubitschek (K V.18, Abklatsch 23); by Gaudin (48); by the MAMA expedition; that and two further fragments (a and c) found by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography: Fragment published by •Reinach, no. 90, from Gaudin and by •Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 509; all fragments published by •Roueché (1981), no. 3, whence SEG 1981.906, BE 1982.357; An.Ép. 1981.767; republished by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 4, whence PHI 211. Discusssion: Christol & Drew-Bear, Travaux & Recherches 1982, 35 no. 32, Zaccaria, Sodalitas (Festschrift Guarino) vol. 2, 697-709, An.Ép. 1984.884.
Text constituted from: Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

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