4.310. i. Verse honours for Anthemios; ii. Invocation

Description:: A rectangular statue base without moulding, recomposed from two fragments (W. 1.05 × H. 0.61 × D. 0.575).
Text:: i. is inscribed on the front face, whose rough surface may indicate that a previous inscription had been erased; the surface has been worn away by water at the left side. ii. is cut on the right side, on a surface from which a previous text appears to have been erased, and which is oddly pitted.
Letters:: i. Av. c. 0.035; irregular, elongated. ii. Roughly cut; 0.035-0.065 (phi), cross 0.17.
Date:: i. A.D. 405/414 (prosopography); ii. fifth to sixth centuries A.D. or later (lettering)
Findspot:: South Agora, Agora Gate: during excavation of the collecting pool.
Original Location:: Unknown.
Last recorded location:: Museum (1993).
History of discovery:: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1977 (77.76, SBI 47).
Bibliography:: i. published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 36, and plate ix, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 716, Steinepigramme 02/09/04 and discussion, •Feissel (1991), 372; ii. Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no 144 and plate xxxiv, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 779.
Text constituted from:: Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).

i: Θ̣Ε̣Μ̣[·]Ι̣Ι̣Ι[·]Κ̣Α̣Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣ΙΝ σε φάλαγξ ἔστησεν, ὕπαρχε, |; ἀντ' εὐεργεσιῶν μικρὰ δίδουσα γέρα |; Ἀνθ̣έμι̣ε, [σ]ῴ̣ζων γὰρ ὁμοῦ δήμους τε πόλεις τε |; ῥύσαο κα̣ὶ Καρῶν τάξιν ἀπολλυμένην, |; (5) ἣν Βερον̣ι̣κ̣ια̣ν̣ὸς διέπων θρόνον | v. ἡγεμονῆ̣ος v. |; ἤνωγεν τεύ̣χειν εἰκόνα μαρμαρέη[ν]
ii: 1Φῶς cross Χ()Μ()Γ()·; 2Ζωή

i: 1···[·]··Ι[·]·····ΙΝΣΕΦΑΛΑΓΞΕΣΤΗΣΕΝΥΠΑΡΧΕ; 2ΑΝΤ'ΕΥΕΡΓΕΣΙΩΝΜΙΚΡΑΔΙΔΟΥΣΑΓΕΡΑ; 3ΑΝ·ΕΜ·Ε[·]·ΖΩΝΓΑΡΟΜΟΥΔΗΜΟΥΣΤΕΠΟΛΕΙΣΤΕ; 4ΡΥΣΑΟΚ·ΙΚΑΡΩΝΤΑΞΙΝΑΠΟΛΛΥΜΕΝΗΝ; 5ΗΝΒΕΡΟ···Ι··ΟΣΔΙΕΠΩΝΘΡΟΝΟΝ; 6 ΗΓΕΜΟΝ·ΟΣ; 7ΗΝΩΓΕΝΤΕ·ΧΕΙΝΕΙΚΟΝΑΜΑΡΜΑΡΕΗ[·]
ii: 1ΦΩΣ cross ΧΜΓ; 2ΖΩΗ

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Apparatus

i. l. 1, Perhaps Κ̣α̣ρῶ̣ν σε φάλαγξ, although this seems clumsily repetitious.

ii. There are traces around the cross which might be decoration or a monogram.

ii. l. 1, perhaps Χ(ριστὸν) Μ(αρία) Γ(εννᾳ)

Translation:

i. The array (?of the Carians) set up your statue, prefect, giving a small reward for your benefactions; for, Anthemios, saving peoples and cities, you also rescued the order of the Carians, which was being destroyed, to whom (the Carians) Beronikianos, occupying the seat of governor, gave instructions to make a marble statue.

ii. Light! Life! M(ary) b(ore) Ch(rist).