Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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23. Honours for Aelia Flaccilla
Description
- Monument:
A white marble columnar statue base shaft (H. approx 1.30, diam. 0.55), broken in two.
- Text:
Inscribed on the face: the surface is chipped (as it already was in 1904) at the upper left corner of the inscription.
- Letters:
Av. 0.03; slightly elongated; decorative serifs.
- Date:
AD 383-386 (Prosopography, titles).
Text
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[τ]ὴν αἰωνίαν καὶ θεοφιλε- |
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[σ]τάτην Αὔγουσταν v. Αἰλίαν
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Φλαβίαν v. Φλακκ̣ίλλαν
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τὴν δέσποιναν τῆς οἰκουμένης
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Κᾶρες ἵδρυσαν ἐν τῇ v. ἑαυτῶν
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vac. μητροπόλει vac. |
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vac. cross vac.
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Translation
The Carians set up in their own metropolis the (statue of ) the eternal Augusta, most dear to God, Aelia Flavia Flacilla, the mistress of the inhabited world.
Apparatus
1.7. The cross, faintly cut on the base below the inscription, was first observed by the Roberts; it is not certainly associated
with the text.
Photographs
| Upper part (1972) |
Upper part (1972) |
Lower part (1972) |
Lower part (1994) |
Top of base (1994) |
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| Top of base (1994) |
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Commentary
See discussion at III.21.
Locations
- Found:
Hadrianic Baths: Thermes, façade (Gaudin). At the north side of the east court of the baths, next to 25.
- Original:
Findspot.
- Last Recorded:
Findspot.
History
- Recording:
Recorded by Gaudin (104) and noted by Boulanger (Notebook A, 43); the stone appears subsequently to have broken into two fragments, of which
the lower was recorded by J. and L. Robert in 1946. Both fragments were recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
Published by •Reinach, 30, from Gaudin, whence IGC 280, ILS 9466; by L. Robert, Hellenica 4, 14 and plate v; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 23 and Plate vi, whence PHI 659.
- Text constituted from:
Publications; transcription (Roueché).
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