8.410. The city honours Fl. Palmatos, governor

Description:: A rectangular white marble statue base shaft (H. 1.01 × W. 0.48 × D. 0.60) with moulding, broken above and below. The stone was re-used; on the opposite face there is a half-moon in relief, suggesting that it perhaps had had a religious function. It stood rather awkwardly on a plinth formed by cutting down another base.
Text:: Inscribed on upper moulding (line 1) and on face below (lines 2 ff.)
Letters:: Av. 0.04, clear but irregular; abbreviations: scroll in ll.5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10: letter above line in ll. 3, 6, 10; l. 6, Κscroll, line above second Ο in ΕΠΑΙΧΟ.
Date:: Late fifth/early sixth century (titulature).
Findspot:: Tetrastoon: standing against the east side of the northernmost column of the west colonnade; several other inscribed bases (8.407, and probably 8.405 and 8.406) stood in similar positions against other columns of this colonnade;
Original Location:: Findspot.
Last recorded location:: Findspot; statue in Museum.
History of discovery:: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1972 (SBI 1) together with its accompanying statue.
Bibliography:: Published by Erim in Porträtplastik, 238, no. 208, whence An.Ép. 1977.605; by Roueché (1979), 173 with plate, whence SEG 1979.1070, BE 1980.473, SEG 1982.1102; republished by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 62 and plate xvi, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 670. Statue published by Erim, Porträtplastik, 236 - 8, no. 208; discussed by Smith (1999), 168 and fig. 9, plate iii.
Text constituted from:: Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).

1[ cross ] Ἀ̣γαθῆι cross Τύχηι cross

2τὸν ἀνανεωτὴν

3καὶ κτίστην τῆς μητροπό(λεως)

4καὶ εὐεργέτην πάσης

5Καρίας Φλ(άβιον) Παλμᾶτον

6τὸν περίβλ(επτον) ὑπα(τικὸν) κ(αὶ) ἐπαίχο(ντα)

7τὸν τόπον τοῦ μεγαλοπρ(επεστάτου)

8βικαρίου, Φλ(άβιος) Ἀθήνεος

9ὁ λαμπρ(ότατος) πατὴρ τῆς

10λαμπρ(οτάτης) Ἀφροδ(εισιέων) μητροπό(λεως)

11εὐχαριστῶν ἀνέθη -

12 v. κεν leaf

1[··]·ΓΑΘΗΙ cross ΤΥΧΗΙ cross

2ΤΟΝΑΝΑΝΕΩΤΗΝ

3ΚΑΙΚΤΙΣΤΗΝΤΗΣΜΗΤΡΟΠΟ

4ΚΑΙΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΗΝΠΑΣΗΣ

5ΚΑΡΙΑΣΦΛΠΑΛΜΑΤΟΝ

6ΤΟΝΠΕΡΙΒΛΥΠΑΚΕΠΑΙΧΟ

7ΤΟΝΤΟΠΟΝΤΟΥΜΕΓΑΛΟΠΡ

8ΒΙΚΑΡΙΟΥΦΛΑΘΗΝΕΟΣ

9ΟΛΑΜΠΡΠΑΤΗΡΤΗΣ

10ΛΑΜΠΡΑΦΡΟΔΜΗΤΡΟΠΟ

11ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΩΝΑΝΕΘΗ

12 ΚΕΝ leaf

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Translation:

To Good Fortune. The renewer and founder of the metropolis and benefactor of all Caria, Flavius Palmatus, spectabilis consular, also holding the position of the magnificentissimus vicar; Flavius Atheneus, the clarissimus pater of the most splendid (i.e. clarissima) metropolis of the Aphrodisians, set up (this statue of Palmatus) in gratitude.