Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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62. The city honours Fl. Palmatus, governor
Description
- Monument:
A rectangular white marble base (1.01 × 0.48 × 0.60) with moulding, broken above and below. The stone was re-used; on the opposite face there is a half-moon in relief, suggesting
that it perhaps had had a religious function. It stood rather awkwardly on a plinth formed by cutting down another base.
- Text:
Inscribed on upper moulding (line 1) and on face below (lines 2 ff.)
- Letters:
Av. 0.04, clear but irregular; abbreviations: scroll in ll.5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10: letter above line in ll. 3, 6, 10; l. 6, Κ scroll , line above second Ο in ΕΠΑΙΧΟ.
- Date:
Late fifth/early sixth century (titulature).
Text
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[ cross ] Ἀ̣γαθῆι cross Τύχηι cross
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Τὸν ἀνανεωτὴν
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καὶ κτίστην τῆς μητροπό(λεως)
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καὶ εὐεργέτην πάσης
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Καρίας Φλ(άβιον) Παλμᾶτον
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τὸν περίβλ(επτον) ὑπα(τικὸν) κ(αὶ) ἐπαίχο(ντα)
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τὸν τόπον τοῦ μεγαλοπρ(επεστάτου)
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βικαρίου, Φλ(άβιος) Ἀθήνεος
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ὁ λαμπρ(ότατος) πατὴρ τῆς
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λαμπρ(οτάτης) Ἀφροδ(εισιέων) μητροπό(λεως)
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εὐχαριστῶν ἀνέθη
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vac.κεν leaf
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Translation
To Good Fortune. The renewer and founder of the metropolis and benefactor of all Caria, Flavius Palmatus, spectabilis consular, also holding the position of the magnificentissimus vicar; Flavius Atheneus, the clarissimus pater of the most splendid (i.e. clarissima) metropolis of the Aphrodisians, set up (this statue of Palmatus) in gratitude.
Photographs
| Base in position, with ALA 64 (1976) |
Base in position (1976) |
Base alone (1980) |
Text (1972) |
Back of base (1993) |
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| Top of base (1993) |
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Representations
| Statue and base: Drawing: K.Gorkay, from Smith (1999) |
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Commentary
See also 63 and discussion at V.33.
For Palmatus see List of Governors, Palmatus.
For Atheneus see List of Local officials, Atheneus.
Locations
- Found:
Tetrastoon: standing against the east side of the northernmost column of the west colonnade; several other inscribed bases (64, and probably 20 and 21) stood in similar positions against other columns of this colonnade; see Plan 6
- Original:
Findspot.
- Last Recorded:
Findspot; statue in Museum.
History
- Recording:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1972 (SBI 1) together with its accompanying statue.
- Bibliography:
Published by Erim in Porträtplastik, 238, no. 208, whence An.Ép. 1977.605; by Roueché (1979), 173 with plate, whence SEG 1979.1070, BE 1980.473, SEG 1982.1102; republished by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 62 and plate xvi, whence PHI 670.
Statue published by Erim, Porträtplastik, 236 - 8, no. 208; discussed by Smith (1999), 168 and fig. 9, plate iii.
- Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché).
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