Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

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81. Honours for an Emperor, Justinian

Description

• Monument: A white marble panel, restored from eight fragments, but with the corners and the lower part lost (0.16 × 0.74 × 0.025).
• Text: Inscribed on the face.
• Letters: 0.095; lunate Ε and Σ, l. 1, but square omega, l. 3; scroll for abbreviation.
• Date: Sixth century (lettering, ?emperor)

Text

Translation

[(e.g.) The city honours] our most pious and splendidly victorious master, Flavius [?Justinia]nus.

Photographs

Face (1983)

Commentary

See discussion at VI.5.

Locations

• Found: Theatre: reused in the southern stretch of the Byzantine defence wall against the east end of the Theatre.
• Original: Unknown.
• Last Recorded: Museum.

History

• Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1983 during dismantling of the wall.
• Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 81 and plate xix, whence PHI 663.
• Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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