5.215. Honours for a comes
- Description:
- White marble statue base shaft, with moulded panels on all four sides (H. 0.60 × W. 1.35 × D. 0.54); broken above, and at the right. Standing on a plinth.
- Text:
- Inscribed within front panel.
- Letters:
- 0.035; simple, elongated and iregular; lunate sigma, epsilon, cursive omega.
- Date:
- First half fourth century A.D. (lettering, titulature).
- Findspot:
- Hadrianic Baths, East Court: 'angle N(ord)-E(st) du pilier N(ord)' (notebook A); 'devant la sixième colonne du portique O(uest) section N(ord)' (Notebook B).
- Original Location:
- Findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot; standing at the west side of the East court (1994).
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by Mendel in 1905, copied by Boulanger (Notebook A 55, no. 10, whence B 4-5, no. 5); recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 14, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 664.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché); Notebooks. This edition Roueché (2007).
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1τὸν λαμπρ[ότατον]
- 2κόμιτα v. φίλον τῶ[ν]
- 3βασιλέων σωτῆ-
- 4ρα τῶν ἐθνῶν κτί-
- 5στην καὶ ἐπανορθω-
- 6τὴν καὶ τῆσδε τῆς
- 7πόλεως v.
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1ΤΟΝΛΑΜΠΡ[······]
- 2ΚΟΜΙΤΑ ΦΙΛΟΝΤΩ[·]
- 3ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΝΣΩΤΗ
- 4ΡΑΤΩΝΕΘΝΩΝΚΤΙ
- 5ΣΤΗΝΚΑΙΕΠΑΝΟΡΘΩ
- 6ΤΗΝΚΑΙΤΗΣΔΕΤΗΣ
- 7ΠΟΛΕΩΣ
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τὸν
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ότατον
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κόμιτα
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φίλον
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ν
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βασιλέων
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ρα
τῶν
ἐθνῶν
κτί
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στην
καὶ
ἐπανορθω
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τὴν
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τῆσδε
τῆς
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πόλεως
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Translation:
[?The city has honoured so-and-so] the most splendid comes, friend of the emperors, saviour of the provinces, founder and restorer also of this city.
Commentary:
See also 8.261, and discussion at ala2004 II.31.
Photographs:
- Front face (1972)
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- Front face (1975)
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- Front view (1994)
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- Back of base (1994)
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Representations:
- Transcription by Boulanger: Notebook A, page 55
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