4.11. Fl. Eutolmius Tatianos honours Valentinian II
- Description:
- A white marble columnar statue base shaft (H. H. 1.03, diam. 0.54). The surface has been even more severely damaged by weather and moss than that of 4.10.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- Av. 0.035; Φ, 1, 5, 0.07; simple, lunate. Scroll for abbreviation.
- Date:
- A.D. 388/392 (emperor, prosopography).
- Findspot:
- South Agora: West portico: 'Galerie de l'E(st). Colonne à d(roite) de la porte la ?plus au N(ord), de l'en[·· ? ··]' (Boulanger, notebook A: 'à droite de la porte', Notebook B). Found by the current expedition standing apparently in situ in the west portico of the South Agora (although Grégoire, IGC 276. from Mendel's notes, describes it as found fallen near its plinth), flanking, on the north, the steps which descend from the east court of the Hadrianic Baths to the portico.
- Original Location:
- Findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (2002).
- History of discovery:
- Excavated and transcribed by Mendel in September 1905; copied by Boulanger (Boulanger (Notebook A, 61, no. 22, whence B, 3, no. 2); copied by J. and L. Robert; recorded by the NYU expedition. Statue excavated by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.248).
- Bibliography:
- Published by •Mendel, Catalogue, no. 506.2; by Grégoire, IGC 276, from Mendel's copy; by •L. Robert, Hellenica 4, 50-51, from Boulanger's notes and his own copy, whence BE 1949.178; by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, 27 and Plate vii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 662. Statue: R. R. R. Smith (1999), 162.
- Text constituted from:
- Publications; Boulanger notebooks; transcription and squeeze (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1Ἀγαθῇ Τύχῃ
- 1a vacat
- 2τ̣ὸν τῆς ὑφ' ἡλίῳ γῆς
- 3αὐτοκράτορα καὶ τροπεοῦ̣χ̣ο̣ν̣
- 4δεσπότην ἡμῶν
- 5Φλ(άουιον) Οὐαλλεντινιανὸν
- 6τ̣ὸν αἰώνιον Αὔγουστον
- 6a vacat
- 7 [[Φ̣λ̣(άουιος) [Εὐ]τ̣ό̣λ̣[μι]ος [Τα]τ̣ι̣[ανὸς]]
- 8 [[[ὁ] [λαμ]π̣ρ̣(ότατος) ἔπ[αρχ]ο̣ς̣ [τ]ο̣ῦ̣ ἱ[ε]ρ̣[οῦ]]]
- 9 [[[πρετωρί]ου τ̣ῇ̣ συ[νήθει]]]
- 10 [[[καθοσιώσει ἀ]φ̣[ιέρωσεν]]]
- 10a vacat
- 11 [[ἐ̣π̣[ὶ Ἀντωνίου Πρίσκου]]]
- 12 [[[τοῦ λαμπρ(οτάτου) ἡγεμόνος]]]
- 1ΑΓΑΘΗΤΥΧΗ
- 1a vacat
- 2·ΟΝΤΗΣΥΦ'ΗΛΙΩΓΗΣ
- 3ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑΚΑΙΤΡΟΠΕΟ····
- 4ΔΕΣΠΟΤΗΝΗΜΩΝ
- 5ΦΛΟΥΑΛΛΕΝΤΙΝΙΑΝΟΝ
- 6·ΟΝΑΙΩΝΙΟΝΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΝ
- 6a vacat
- 7 [[··[··]···[··]ΟΣ[··]··[····]]
- 8 [[[·][···]··ΕΠ[···]··[·]··Ι[·]·[··]]]
- 9 [[[·······]ΟΥ··ΣΥ[·····]]]
- 10 [[[···········]·[·······]]]
- 10a vacat
- 11 [[··[·················]]]
- 12 [[[························]]]
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n="1"
/>
Ἀγαθῇ
Τύχῃ
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/>
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unit="line"
dim="vertical"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τ
</unclear>
ὸν
τῆς
ὑφ'
ἡλίῳ
γῆς
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n="3"
/>
αὐτοκράτορα
καὶ
τροπεο
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reason="damage"
>
ῦχον
</unclear>
<lb
n="4"
/>
δεσπότην
ἡμῶν
<lb
n="5"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Φλ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
άουιον
</supplied>
Οὐαλλεντινιανὸν
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n="6"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τ
</unclear>
ὸν
αἰώνιον
Αὔγουστον
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n="6a"
/>
<space
extent="1"
unit="line"
dim="vertical"
/>
<lb
n="7"
/>
<del>
<expan>
<abbr>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</abbr>
Φλ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
άουιος
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Εὐ
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<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τόλ
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<supplied
reason="lost"
>
μι
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ος
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>
Τα
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<unclear
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>
τι
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>
</del>
ανὸς
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/>
<del>
<supplied
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>
ὁ
</supplied>
<expan>
<abbr>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
λαμ
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</abbr>
πρ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
ότατος
</supplied>
ἔπ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
αρχ
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ος
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τ
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
οῦ
</unclear>
<unclear
reason="undefined"
>
ἱ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ε
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ρ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</del>
οῦ
</supplied>
<lb
n="9"
/>
<del>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
πρετωρί
</supplied>
ου
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τῇ
</unclear>
<unclear
reason="undefined"
>
συ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</del>
νήθει
</supplied>
<lb
n="10"
/>
<del>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
καθοσιώσει
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἀ
</supplied>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
φ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</del>
ιέρωσεν
</supplied>
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n="10a"
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<space
extent="1"
unit="line"
dim="vertical"
/>
<lb
n="11"
/>
<del>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ἐπ
</unclear>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ὶ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</del>
Ἀντωνίου
Πρίσκου
</supplied>
<lb
n="12"
/>
<del>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
</del>
τοῦ
<expan>
<abbr>
λαμπρ
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
οτάτου
</supplied>
ἡγεμόνος
</supplied>
Apparatus
l.5. Mendel apparently did not copy Φλ(?) or the superfluous λ in Οὐαλλεντινιανόν; Boulanger recorded both.
ll. 7-12 have been erased. Grégoire was unaware of this erasure; Mendel saw three lines erased, Boulanger recorded two. Our readings from the stone and from a squeeze are very unclear.
Translation:
With Good Fortune. The emperor of (all) the earth under the sun, and our victorious master, Flavius Valentinianus the eternal Augustus. [[Flavius Eutolmius Tatianos. clarissimus, prefect of the sacred praetorium, dedicated (this statue) with the customary devotion, in the time of Antonius Priskos, clarissimus praeses.]]
Commentary:
For Flavius Eutolmius Tatianos see PLRE I Tatianos 5. For this group of dedications by him see 5.217, 4.10, and discussion at ala2004 III.24. For Antonius Priskos see 5.217, 4.10 and 2.110, and discussion at ala2004 III.30
Photographs:
- Face (1973)
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- Face (1973)
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- View (2002)
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- Right side(1994)
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- Left side (1994)
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- Top of base(1994)
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Representations:
- Boulanger Notebook A, page 61
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- Statue and base: Drawing: K.Gorkay, from Smith (1999)
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