4. Honours for Licinius Valerianus Charlotte M. Roueché 2004

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Description of Monument

Three adjoining fragments of a white marble statue base shaft with a moulded panel on one face. a, an upper right corner fragment, has lines 1-6 (0.23 × 0.33 × 0.30); b, a fragment with the left side moulding surviving has lines 6-20 (0.38 × 0.53 × 0.34); c, the lower part of the block, with moulding surviving on both sides and below, has lines 16-20 (0.46 × 0.46 × 0.54).

Description of Text

Inscribed within the panel; the last letter is cut on the moulding in lines 5, 6, 17, 18 and (presumably) 10.

Description of Letters

ll. 1-15. 0.025; ll 16-20, 0.022-0.023.

Ligatures: ΗΝ, l.8; ΤΗ, l.9; ΝΕ, l. 19.

Date

AD 253-260 (content).

Edition ἡ πόλιςον Λικίννιον Οὐαλεριανὸν υἱὸν καὶ ἀδελφὸν τῶν Σεβαστῶν τὸν ἑαυ-τῆς εὐεργέτην, προνοησαμένου τῆςἀναστάσεωςτοῦ ἀξιολογωτάτου Ἀντωνίου Νεικομάχου τοῦπατρὸς τοῦ πρώτου ἄρχοντοςἈντωνίου Κλαυδίου Νεικομάχουἀρχιερέων ἐκγό νου
Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

Translation The city has honoured us Licinius Valerianus, son and brother of the Augusti, her benefactor; the most worthy Antonius Nicomachus, father of the first archon Antonius Claudius Nicomachus, offspring of high-priests, supervised the erection of the monument.
Commentary

See discussion at I.10; for Nicomachus see Local Officials, Nicomachus.

Found

Temple-Church: loose finds, probably from a base re-used in the bema wall.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Museum and findspot.

History

b recorded by Kubitschek (K V.18, Abklatsch 23); by Gaudin (48); by the MAMA expedition; that and two further fragments (a and c) found by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Fragment published by Reinach, no. 90, from Gaudin and by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 509; all fragments published by Roueché (1981), no. 3, whence SEG 1981.906, BE 1982.357; An.Ép. 1981.767; republished by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 4, whence PHI 211.

Discusssion: Christol & Drew-Bear, Travaux & Recherches 1982, 35 no. 32, Zaccaria, Sodalitas (Festschrift Guarino) vol. 2, 697-709, An.Ép. 1984.884.

Photographs

Upper right corner (1976)

Upper right corner (1980)

Centre right (1976)

Lower left corner (1976)

Lower left corner (1980)

Category of Text

imperial: honours

Category of Monument

statue base shaft