Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

7. Honours for T. Oppius Aelianus Asclepiodotus

Description

Monument: White marble statue base capital and shaft (0.84 × 1.10 × 0.84) with moulding on three sides.
Text: Inscribed on the moulding of the capital (ll. 1, 2) and within the front panel (ll. 3-12).
Letters: 0.02; apex for abbreviation mark; ligatures: ΝΗ, l.6; ΝΚ, l.8; ΤΗΝ, l.9; ΗΝ, l. 10.
Date: AD 284-301 (prosopography).

Text

	vac. ἡ πατρὶς vac.
	vac. Ἀγαθῇ Τύχῃ vac.
	Τ(ίτον) Ὄππ(ιον) Αἰλιανὸν
	^v. Ἀσκληπίοδοτον
5	τὸν λαμπρότατον
	ὑπατικὸν ἡγεμόνα
	Καρίας καὶ Φρυγίας
	ἀνθύπατον καὶ ἐπα-
	νορθωτήν Ἀσίας κτί-
10	στην καὶ σωτῆρα καὶ
	τῆς ἑαυτοῦ πατρίδος
	Τιβ(έριος) Κλ(αύδιος) Μαρκιανὸς ὁ
	πρῶτος ἄρχων.
	vacat

Translation

The Homeland, With Good Fortune, (set up the statue of) T(itus) Opp(ius) Aelianus Asclepiodotus, the most splendid consular, governor of Caria and Phrygia, proconsul and corrector of Asia, founder and saviour also of his own homeland; Tib(erius) Cl(audius) Marcianus the first archon (set this up/was in charge).

Photographs

View in situ (1980)	Front face (1983)	Front view (1980)

Commentary

See discussion at II.4.

For T(itus) Opp(ius) Aelianus Asclepiodotus see fasti, Governors, Oppius Asclepiodotus.

For Marcianus see fasti: Local Officials, Marcianus.

Locations

Found: South Agora: Agora Gate: ?re-used in the collecting pool. See plan 2.
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Findspot.

History

Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1977 (77.135).
Bibliography: Published by •Roueché, (1981), no. 6, whence SEG 1981.910, BE 1982.357, An.Ép. 1981.770, An.Ép. 1982, 893; by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 7 whence PHI 311.
Text constituted from: Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

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