8.405. Honours for Julian by Antonius Tatianos

Description:: a. A white marble statue base capital, for a columnar base, and b. the white marble columnar shaft of a statue base with simple moulding above and below (H. H. 1.16; diam. 0.53). The moulding is cut into on both sides, as is the shaft itself on one side, as if it had served as a support for a balustrade (or perhaps for re-use in the defence wall). The moulding is half smoothed, and half left rough. The statue also survives: see Smith (2001).
Text:: Line 1 is on a simple column capital, inscribed at the top of the drum; lines 2-13 are on the shaft, but the inscription is not centred in respect of the moulding.
Letters:: Elongated and elegant, except for the last word in l.2, which has been inserted in a rasura, and is clumsily cut; l.1, 0.03; ll.2-3, 0.025; ll.3-7, 9 ff., 0.03; 1. 8, 0.035; Φ, 0.05; scroll for abbreviation.
Date:: A.D. 361/363 (reign)
Findspot:: Tetrastoon: re-used in the northern stretch of the seventh-century defence wall which blocks off the east end of the Theatre.
Original Location:: Tetrastoon, west portico: A round plinth, on which this stone probably stood, is apparently in its original position, against the west portico, just south of 8.410 and(unpublished). .
Last recorded location:: Museum (1983).
History of discovery:: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1976 and 1977 (base: 77.136, SBI 27, capital: 76.112).
Bibliography:: Published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 20, and Plate vii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 657. Statue: R. R. R. Smith (1999) 161-2; R. R. R. Smith, ''A portait monument for Julian and Theodosius'' in C. Reusser ed. Griechenland in der Kaiserzeit (Berlin, 2001) 125-136.
Text constituted from:: Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).

1Ἀγαθῆι Τύχηι

2Φλ(άουιον) Κλ(αύδιον) [[[Ἰουλιανὸν]]] `Θεοδόσιον´

3 v. τὸν αἰώνιον

4καὶ εὐσεβέστατον

5 v. Αὔγουστον

6Ἀντώνιος Τατιανὸς

7 v. ὁ λαμπρ(ότατος) ἡγεμὼν

8πᾶν τὸ ὁρώμενον

9ἔργον τοῦ τετραστώου

10 v. ἐκ θεμελίων καὶ τὸν

11περικειμένον σύμπαν-

12τα κόσμον τῇ μητροπόλι

13 v. κατασκευάσας leaf

1ΑΓΑΘΗΙΤΥΧΗΙ

2ΦΛΚΛ

3 ΤΟΝΑΙΩΝΙΟΝ

4ΚΑΙΕΥΣΕΒΕΣΤΑΤΟΝ

5 ΑΥΓΟΥΣΤΟΝ

6ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΣΤΑΤΙΑΝΟΣ

7 ΟΛΑΜΠΡΗΓΕΜΩΝ

8ΠΑΝΤΟΟΡΩΜΕΝΟΝ

9ΕΡΓΟΝΤΟΥΤΕΤΡΑΣΤΩΟΥ

10 ΕΚΘΕΜΕΛΙΩΝΚΑΙΤΟΝ

11ΠΕΡΙΚΕΙΜΕΝΟΝΣΥΜΠΑΝ

12ΤΑΚΟΣΜΟΝΤΗΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΙ

13 ΚΑΤΑΣΚΕΥΑΣΑΣ leaf

<ab>

Ἀγαθῆι

Τύχηι

<expan>

<abbr>

Φλ

</abbr>

άουιον

</supplied>

</expan>

<expan>

<abbr>

Κλ

</abbr>

αύδιον

</supplied>

</expan>

<rdg >

<del>

Ἰουλιανὸν

</supplied>

</del>

</rdg>

<rdg >

<add >

Θεοδόσιον

</add>

</rdg>

</app>

τὸν

αἰώνιον

καὶ

εὐσεβέστατον

Αὔγουστον

Ἀντώνιος

Τατιανὸς

ὁ

<expan>

<abbr>

λαμπρ

</abbr>

ότατος

</supplied>

</expan>

ἡγεμὼν

πᾶν

τὸ

ὁρώμενον

ἔργον

τοῦ

τετραστώου

ἐκ

θεμελίων

καὶ

τὸν

περικειμένον

σύμπαν

τα

κόσμον

τῇ

<orig >

μητροπόλι

</orig>

κατασκευάσας

</ab>

Apparatus

l. 2, Θεοδόσιον added in a later hand, in rasura; the erased name must be Ἰουλιανόν.

Translation:

To Good Fortune. Antonius Tatianos, clarissimus praeses, having built all the work of the tetrastoon that can be seen from the foundations, and all the surrounding decoration, for the metropolis, (set up this statue) of Flavius Claudius Julianus (later emended to Theodosius), the eternal and most pious Augustus.