8.709. Honours for Flavius Carminius Klaudianos
- Description:
- Two adjoining fragments of a rectangular white marble statue base (W. 0.90 × H. 0.31 × D. 0.45) moulded on the front face (W. 0.85 × H. 0.31). All edges and some parts of the face are chipped.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face (W. 0.83 wide), with some overlap onto the mouldings in lines 1 and 6.
- Letters:
- Late second to early third century; l.1, 0.022, l.2, 0.02, l.3, 0.018, l.4, 0.02, l.5, 0.024, l.6, 0.022: dot for stop; ligatures: ΜΗ, l.1. Diairetic dots around Α of Ἀθηναγόραν (l. 2), final Υ (l. 2), Ε of ἀρχιερείας (l. 3), Α of ΑΝΑ (l. 4), Ε of ἐποήσατο, l.5, Α of βία, second Α of Ἀπφία, Υ of ὑπέσχετο, l.6.
- Date:
- Third century A.D. (lettering, prosopography)
- Findspot:
- Theatre Baths , S.E. Piazza, Trench 1
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1976)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1976 (76.22)
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1 ἡ βουλὴ stop καὶ ὁ δῆμος stop ἐτείμησαν Φλάβιον Καρ-
- 2μίνιον Ἀθηναγόραν stop συνκλητικὸν ὑὸν (sic)
- 3 Φλαβίας stop Ἀπφίας stop Ἀσίας stop ἀρχιερείας stop καὶ Καρμι-
- 4νίου Κλαυδιανοῦ stop νεωτέρου stop τὴν δὲ stop ἀνά
- 5 στασιν v. τοῦ ἀνδριάντος ἐποήσατο Φλα-
- 6βία Ἀπφία καθὼς ὑπέσχετο leaf vac.
- 1ΗΒΟΥΛΗ stop ΚΑΙΟΔΗΜΟΣ stop ΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΑΝΦΛΑΒΙΟΝΚΑΡ
- 2ΜΙΝΙΟΝΑΘΗΝΑΓΟΡΑΝ stop ΣΥΝΚΛΗΤΙΚΟΝΥΟΝ(sic)
- 3ΦΛΑΒΙΑΣ stop ΑΠΦΙΑΣ stop ΑΣΙΑΣ stop ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΙΑΣ stop ΚΑΙΚΑΡΜΙ
- 4ΝΙΟΥΚΛΑΥΔΙΑΝΟΥ stop ΝΕΩΤΕΡΟΥ stop ΤΗΝΔΕ stop ΑΝΑ
- 5ΣΤΑΣΙΝ ΤΟΥΑΝΔΡΙΑΝΤΟΣΕΠΟΗΣΑΤΟΦΛΑ
- 6ΒΙΑΑΠΦΙΑΚΑΘΩΣΥΠΕΣΧΕΤΟ leaf
Translation:
The Council and the People honoured Flavius Carminius Athenagoras, Roman senator, son of Flavia Apphia, high priestess of Asia, and of Carminius Klaudianos the younger. Flavia Apphia was responsible for the erection of the statue, as she promised.
Commentary:
The honorand, who haad become a Roman senator, was son of M. Ulpius Carminius Klaudianos - see 12.646, 12.1111 ( = CIG 2782) of the leading family of the neighbouring city of attouda, who spent much time and money in Aphrodisias (12.1111) and married the Flavia Apphia named here, daughter of an Aphrodisian family, her father being an imperial procurator who had married into a family of Roman senators (12.646, (unpublished)). His own son, T. Flavius Athenagoras, also became a Roman senator (12.1111).
This text might lead one to suspect that Flavia Apphia wished to celebrate her son's rank as equivalent to that of her nephew. It is also of interest that she is mentioned here before her husband - no doubt in principle because she was paying for the monument - and that while she was very probably high priestess of Asia because she was his wife when he was high priest, his tenure of that office is not mentioned.
Photographs:
- Face (1976)
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