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36. Verse honours for Anthemius;144. Invocation

Description

• Monument: A rectangular base without moulding, recomposed from two fragments (1.05 × 0.61 × 0.575).
• Text: 36 is inscribed on the front face, whose rough surface may indicate that a previous inscription had been erased; the surface has been worn away by water at the left side. 144 is cut on the right side, on a surface from which a previous text appears to have been erased, and which is oddly pitted.
• Letters: Av. 0.035; irregular, elongated Roughly cut; 0.035-0.065 (phi), cross 0.17.
• Date: AD 405/414 (prosopography) Fifth/sixth century or later (lettering)

Text

36

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Translation

36. The array (of the Carians) set up your statue, prefect, giving a small reward for your benefactions; for, Anthemius, saving peoples and cities, you also rescued the order of the Carians, which was being destroyed, to whom (the Carians) Beronicianus, occupying the seat of governor, gave instructions to make a marble statue.

144. Light! Life! M(?ary) b(?ore) Ch(?rist).

Apparatus

36: l.1: Perhaps Κ̣α̣ρῶ̣ν σε φάλαγξ, although this seems clumsily repetitious.

144: There are traces around the cross which might be decoration or a monogram.

Line 1: perhaps Χ(ριστὸν) Μ(αρία) Γ(εννᾳ)

Photographs

36: Face (1978)	144: Face	144: Detail (1978)	Top of base (1993)

Commentary

For 36 see discussion at IV.4. The man honoured is the PPO Anthemius (405-414; PLRE II, Anthemius 1); for Beronicianus see also List of Governors, Beronicianus.

For the Carians - that is, the provincial assembly of the province of Caria - see discussion at II.37.

For 144 see discussion at VIII.16 and VIII.20.

Locations

• Found: South Agora: Agora Gate: during excavation of the collecting pool.
• Original: Unknown.
• Last Recorded: Museum.

History

• Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1977 (77. 76, SBI 47).
• Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 36, and plate ix, whence PHI 716, Steinepigramme 02/09/04 and discussion, •Feissel (1991), 372; Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no 144 and plate xxxiv, whence PHI 779.
• Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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