8.273. The city honours Bitianos, governor

Description:
A rectangular white marble statue base shaft (W. 0.86 × H. 0.47 × D. 0.40) with panels within moulded edges on three sides.
Text:
Inscribed on the central panel; on the right side panel the letters ΤΑ have been cut.
Letters:
0.02-0.03; irregular, and in varying forms; abbreviations: scroll above line in l. 4; letter above line in l. 5; there are apparently superfluous letters in lines 7 and 9.
Date:
Late fifth/early-mid sixth century (offices; titles).
Findspot:
Theatre: north scaena.
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Museum.
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1970 (70.226, SBI 26).
Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 65 and plate xvi, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 669.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1[?[[ cross ]]] ἡ λαμπρὰ καὶ
2περιφανὴς Ἀφροδι -
3σιέων μητρόπολις
4Βιτιανὸν τὸν λαμπρ(ότατον)
5σχο(λαστικὸν) καὶ ὑπα(τικὸν) τὸν οἰκῖον
6εὐεργέτην καὶ
7ἀγωνοθέτην Α
8ἀνέθηκεν
9       vacat
10 leaf Α
1[]ΗΛΑΜΠΡΑΚΑΙ
2ΠΕΡΙΦΑΝΗΣΑΦΡΟΔΙ
3ΣΙΕΩΝΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙΣ
4ΒΙΤΙΑΝΟΝΤΟΝΛΑΜΠΡ
5ΣΧΟΚΑΙΥΠΑΤΟΝΟΙΚΙΟΝ
6ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΗΝΚΑΙ
7ΑΓΩΝΟΘΕΤΗΝΑ
8ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ
9       vacat
10 leaf Α
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
<del>
<g type="cross" />
</del>
</supplied>
ἡ
λαμπρὰ
καὶ
<lb n="2" />
περιφανὴς
Ἀφροδι
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
σιέων
μητρόπολις
<lb n="4" />
Βιτιανὸν
τὸν
<expan>
<abbr>
λαμπρ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ότατον
</supplied>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
σχο
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
λαστικὸν
</supplied>
</expan>
καὶ
<expan>
<abbr>
ὑπα
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
τικὸν
</supplied>
</expan>
τὸν
οἰκῖον
<lb n="6" />
εὐεργέτην
καὶ
<lb n="7" />
ἀγωνοθέτην
<orig n="unresolved" >
α
</orig>
<lb n="8" />
ἀνέθηκεν
<lb n="9" />
<space extent="1" unit="line" dim="vertical" />
<lb n="10" />
<g type="leaf" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
α
</orig>
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 1, Whatever stood at the beginning of the line—the outline suggests a cross—has been deeply erased.

l. 7, The Α at the end of the line, which conforms to the other letters, might be a numeral or a false start in writing ἀνέθηκεν.

1.9: The Α is very roughly written, and has the appearance of a rough graffito addition.

Translation:

The splendid and well-known metropolis of the Aphrodisians set up (this statue of) Bitianos, clarissimus scholasticus and consular, their own benefactor and agonothete.

Commentary:

See discussion at ala2004 V.38.

Photographs:

Base
 Base
Right side (1993)
 Right side (1993)
Top (1993)
 Top (1993)
Top (1994)
 Top (1994)

Representations:

Squeeze (1972)
 Squeeze (1972)

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