Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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79. Acclamation for Scholasticius
Description
- Monument:
A white marble capital, with the bust of a man protruding from it (0.25 × 0.62 × 0.705). The head, which has been broken, interrupted the upper rim of the moulding.
- Text:
The inscription runs in one line on the upper rim, which is broken at the right.
- Letters:
0.045; tall and thin.
- Date:
Fourth/fifth century (lettering).
Text
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cross Felix semper head Scholast[?icius]
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Translation
May Scholasticius always be fortunate!
Photographs
Commentary
See discussion at V.60 and, on acclamations, V.54.
Locations
- Found:
Village: re-used in a house near the Theatre. Now in the dig-house garden.
- Original:
Unknown.
- Last Recorded:
Museum.
History
- Recording:
Found by the NYU expedition in 1969 during destruction of village houses (69. 308).
- Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 79, whence PHI 807.
- Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché).
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