Description:
A white marble column fluted above and smooth below. 'Höhe: H. 154, Breite: W. 220.'.
Text:
Inscribed on the smooth surface, below the fluting.
Letters:
0.085; irregular, somewhat elongated; abbreviations: scroll in l.1, Ρ above line in l. 3.
Date:
Later fourth century (titulature, lettering).
Findspot:
North Agora; south portico on the eighth column (counted from the east) 'der Rest der 8. Säule' (Kubitschek). .
Original Location:
Findspot
Last recorded location:
This remnant has now disappeared, probably into the nearby water channel, which is lined with column fragments
History of discovery:
Copied by Kubitschek (K.III.38, Abklatsch xxx); not reported subsequently.
Bibliography:
Published by Cormack, ABSA 59 (1964), no. 22, from Kubitscheck's copy; whence Robert, AC 35, 1966, 381, Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 29, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 608.
Text constituted from:
Publication. This edition Roueché (2007).
1Φλ(αουίου) Πελαγίου
2Ἰωάννου
3τοῦ λαμπρ(οτάτου)
4ἡγεμόνος
1ΦΛ scroll ΠΕΛΑΓΙΟΥ
2ΙΩΑΝΝΟΥ
3ΤΟΥΛΑΜΠΡ
4ΗΓΕΜΟΝΟΣ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Φλ
<orig >
<g type="scroll" />
</orig>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
αουίου
</supplied>
</expan>
Πελαγίου
<lb n="2" />
Ἰωάννου
<lb n="3" />
τοῦ
<expan>
<abbr>
λαμπ
ρ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
οτάτου
</supplied>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
ἡγεμόνος
</ab>

Translation:

(?Gift of) Flavius Pelagius Ioannes, clarissimus praeses.

Commentary:

For Fl. Pelagius Ioannes see discussion at ala2004 III.32.

Photographs:

North Agora, south portico: view (1985)
 North Agora, south portico: view (1985)

Representations:

Kubitschek notebook 3, page 38
 Kubitschek notebook 3, page 38

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