Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

20. Honours for Julian by Antonius Tatianus

Description

Monument: a. A white marble base capital, for a columnar base, and b. the white marble columnar shaft of a statue base with simple moulding above and below (H. 1.16; diam. 0.53). The moulding is cut into on both sides, as is the shaft itself on one side, as if it had served as a support for a balustrade (or perhaps for re-use in the defence wall). The moulding is half smoothed, and half left rough. The statue also survives: see Smith (2001).
Text: Line 1 is on a simple column capital, inscribed at the top of the drum; lines 2-13 are on the shaft, but the inscription is not centred in respect of the moulding.
Letters: Elongated and elegant, except for the last word in l.2, which has been inserted in a rasura, and is clumsily cut; l.1, 0.03; ll.2-3, 0.025; ll.3-7, 9 ff., 0.03; 1. 8, 0.035; Φ, 0.05; scroll for abbreviation.
Date: AD 361/363

Text

	Ἀγαθῆι Τύχηι·
	Φλ(άουιον) Κλ(αύδιον) [Ἰουλιανὸν] Θεοδόσιον
	^v. τὸν αἰώνιον
	καὶ εὐσεβέστατον
5	^v. Αὔγουστον
	Ἀντώνιος Τατιανὸς
	^v. ὁ λαμπρ(ότατος) ἡγεμὼν
	πᾶν τὸ ὁρώμενον
	ἔργον τοῦ τετραστώου
10	^v. ἐκ θεμελίων καὶ τὸν
	περικειμένον σύμπαν-
	τα κόσμον τῇ μητροπόλι
	^v. κατασκευάσας leaf

Translation

To Good Fortune. Antonius Tatianus, clarissimus praeses, having built all the work of the tetrastoon that can be seen from the foundations, and all the surrounding decoration, for the metropolis, (set up this statue) of Flavius Claudius Julianus (later emended to Theodosius), the eternal and most pious Augustus.

Apparatus

l.2: Θεοδόσιον added in a later hand, in rasura; the erased name must be Ἰουλιανόν.

Photographs

Base capital (1977)	Base shaft (1978)	Base shaft (1980)	Base shaft (1983)	Face (1978)

Representations

Statue and base: Drawing: K.Gorkay, from Smith (2001)

Commentary

See discussion at III.10. For Antonius Tatianus see also no. 21 and List of Governors, Antonius Tatianus; for the monument as whole, see Smith (2001).

Locations

Found: Tetrastoon: re-used in the northern stretch of the seventh-century defence wall which blocks off the east end of the Theatre. See plan 6
Original: Tetrastoon, west portico: A round plinth, on which this stone probably stood, is apparently in its original position, against the west portico, just south of 62 and 65. See plan 6.
Last Recorded: Museum.

History

Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1976 and 1977 (inv. nos. base: 77. 136, SBI 27, capital: 76. 112).
Bibliography: Published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 20, and Plate vii, whence PHI 657. Statue: R. R. R. Smith (1999) 161-2; R. R. R. Smith, ''A portait monument for Julian and Theodosius'' in C. Reusser ed. Griechenland in der Kaiserzeit (Berlin, 2001) 125-136.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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