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13. Dedication by Flavius Andronicus
Description
- Monument:
A rectangular white marble base, with moulding at the upper
and lower edges (0.57
× 1.165 ×
0.485), which has been
re-used.
- Text:
The first line—on the upper moulding—is from an
earlier text, which has been erased from the face and replaced by the
present text.
- Letters:
Line 1, 0.02;
probably second century. ll.2-6, letters lightly cut, elongated and
irregular; l. 3 was inserted after the main text had been cut and is
in smaller letters (0.03-0.035) than those of the main text
(0.04-0.05); lunate
sigma and cursive omega.
- Date:
c. AD 337-350 (lettering, content).
Text
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Ἀγαθῇ Τύχῃ·
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Φλ(άβιος) Ἀνδρόνικος
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ὁ διασημότατο[ς]
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ἐποίει καὶ τῇ αὑτο[ῦ] |
5 |
πατρίδι ἐδωρήσα- |
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το leaf
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Translation
With Good Fortune. Fl(avius) Andronicus, perfectissimus, made (this) and gave it to his
own homeland.
Photographs
Face (1972) |
Face (1980) |
Top of base (1994) |
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Commentary
See discussion at II.25.
Locations
- Found:
Bouleuterion/Odeon: at the west side, re-used in the wall
between rear chambers 4 and 5.
- Original:
Unknown.
- Last Recorded:
Findspot.
History
- Recording:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1964 (64.278).
- Bibliography:
Published by •Erim and Roueché (1982), no. 3, whence
SEG 1982.1107; BE
1984.405, SEG 1985.1082 and discussion by D.
Rössler, ''Andronikos IV'', in Künstlerlexikon
der Antike (Munchen/Leipzig, 2001); by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 13, whence PHI 169; by •Erim and
Reynolds (1991), no. 14, whence SEG 1990.937..
- Text constituted from:
Copies (Reynolds, Roueché).
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