Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

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32. The Phrygian Metropolis honours Alexander, in verse

Description

• Monument: An octagonal white marble base shaft (H. 1.05, on a plinth 0.21; W. 0.50) with two inscriptions. The first, probably dating from the first or early second century AD (unpublished), has been partially erased, and the base placed so that it faces the wall.
• Text: 32 occupies two faces, diametrically opposite the first text.
• Letters: II. 1-3, 0.04; II. 4-8. 0.035; I. 9, 0.045; clearly cut, irregular; lunate in I. 9, otherwise square.
• Date: Late fourth or fifth century (lettering, content).

Text

Translation

A stone image of the just Alexander the mother of Phrygia sent here to the mother of Caria, (as) an undying mark of his god-like rule; but all words fall short of the man's good cheer. With good fortune!

Apparatus

5. There is a line cut over the first Α.

6. There is a cross-bar in the first Ο, making a Θ; Π has been corrected from Η.

7. Π has apparently been corrected from Τ.

Photographs

Face (1973)	Face (1994)	Left panel (1972)	Left panel (1994)	Right panel (1973)
Top of base (1994)

Representations

Statue and base: Drawing: K.Gorkay, from Smith (1999)

Commentary

For Alexander see List of Governors Alexander.

For the text, see discussion at III.35. For the statue and the monument as whole, see Smith (1999) 165-7.

Locations

• Found: North Agora: standing against the north wall of the north stoa some way west of 31. See plan 1.
• Original: Findspot.
• Last Recorded: Findspot.

History

• Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1965 (65.396). The accompanying statue, whose head is lost, was found lying beside the base, and is now in the Museum.
• Bibliography: Published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 32 whence PHI 713, C. P. Jones, Hermes 125 (1997), 212-14, Steinepigramme 02/09/02. Statue: K. T. Erim in Turk Ark. Derg. 15.1 (1966), 61, 66; Smith (1999), 165-7.
• Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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