2.113. Statue dedication by Flavius Andronikos
- Description:
- A rectangular white marble statue base shaft, with moulding at the upper and lower edges (H. 0.57 × W. 1.165 × D. 0.485), which has been re-used.
- Text:
- The first line—on the upper moulding—is from an earlier text, which has been erased from the face and replaced by the present text.
- Letters:
- l. 1, 0.02; probably second century. ll. 2-6, letters lightly cut, elongated and irregular; l. 3 was inserted after the main text had been cut and is in smaller letters (0.03-0.035) than those of the main text (0.04-0.05); lunate sigma and cursive omega.
- Date:
- c. A.D. 324-350 (lettering, content).
- Findspot:
- Bouleuterion/Odeon: at the west side, re-used in the wall between rear chambers 4 and 5.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1980).
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1964 (64.278).
- Bibliography:
- Published by •Erim and Roueché (1982), no. 3, whence SEG 1982.1107; BE 1984.405, SEG 1985.1082 and discussion by D. Rössler, ''Andronikos IV'', in Künstlerlexikon der Antike (Munchen/Leipzig, 2001); by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 13, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 169; by •Erim and Reynolds (1991), no. 14, whence SEG 1990.937..
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1Ἀγαθῇ Τύχῃ·
- 2Φλ(άβιος) Ἀνδρόνικος
- 3ὁ διασημότατο[ς]
- 4ἐποίει καὶ τῇ αὑτο[ῦ]
- 5πατρίδι ἐδωρήσα-
- 6το leaf
- 1ΑΓΑΘΗΤΥΧΗ
- 2ΦΛΑΝΔΡΟΝΙΚΟΣ
- 3ΟΔΙΑΣΗΜΟΤΑΤΟ[·]
- 4ΕΠΟΙΕΙΚΑΙΤΗΑΥΤΟ[·]
- 5ΠΑΤΡΙΔΙΕΔΩΡΗΣΑ
- 6ΤΟ leaf
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Ἀγαθῇ
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Φλ
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άβιος
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Ἀνδρόνικος
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ὁ
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ς
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ἐποίει
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ῦ
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πατρίδι
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το
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Translation:
With Good Fortune. Fl(avius) Andronikos, perfectissimus, made (this) and gave it to his own homeland.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 II.25.
Photographs:
- Face (1972)
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- Face (1980)
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- Top of base (1994)
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