7. Honours for T. Oppius Aelianus Asclepiodotus Charlotte M. Roueché 2004

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Description of Monument

White marble statue base capital and shaft (0.84 × 1.10 × 0.84) with moulding on three sides.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the moulding of the capital (ll. 1, 2) and within the front panel (ll. 3-12).

Description of Letters

0.02; apex for abbreviation mark; ligatures: ΝΗ, l.6; ΝΚ, l.8; ΤΗΝ, l.9; ΗΝ, l. 10.

Date

AD 284-301 (prosopography).

Edition ἡ πατρὶς Ἀγαθῇ Τύχῃ Τίτον Ὄππιον Αἰλιανὸν Ἀσκληπίοδοτοντὸν λαμπρότατονὑπατικὸν ἡγεμόναΚαρίας καὶ Φρυγίαςἀνθύπατον καὶ ἐπανορθωτήν Ἀσίας κτίστην καὶ σωτῆρα καὶτῆς ἑαυτοῦ πατρίδοςΤιβέριος Κλαύδιος Μαρκιανὸς ὁπρῶτος ἄρχων.
Translation The Homeland, With Good Fortune, set up the statue of Titus Oppius Aelianus Asclepiodotus, the most splendid consular, governor of Caria and Phrygia, proconsul and corrector of Asia, founder and saviour also of his own homeland; Tiberius Claudius Marcianus the first archon set this up/was in charge.
Commentary

See discussion at II.4.

For Titus Oppius Aelianus Asclepiodotus see fasti, Governors, Oppius Asclepiodotus.

For Marcianus see fasti: Local Officials, Marcianus.

Found

South Agora: Agora Gate: re-used in the collecting pool. See plan 2.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Findspot.

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1977 (77.135).

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, (1981), no. 6, whence SEG 1981.910, BE 1982.357, An.Ép. 1981.770, An.Ép. 1982, 893; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 7 whence PHI 311.

Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

Photographs

View in situ (1980)

Front face (1983)

Front view (1980)

Category of Text

honours; governor.

Category of Monument

statue base capital, base capital and statue base shaft.