17. Building inscription of Helladius Charlotte M. Roueché 2004

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Description of Monument

A white marble cornice block with projcting moulding (0.345 × 0.305 × 0.75).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the upper fascia of the moulding (H. 0.113).

Description of Letters

0.017; clear cut, with a flowing line similar to ALA 12, 252, and 18.

Date

First half of the fourth century (lettering).

Edition θῆκε κἀμὲ ἐνθάδε Ἑλλάδιος ὁἀνανεωτὴς τῆς λαμπρᾶς μητροπόλεως.
Translation Helladius, the renovator of the splendid metropolis, established me also.
Commentary

For Helladius see 16, 18 and List of Governors, Helladius.

For discussion see II.35.

Found

South Agora: West Portico: 'Galerie de l'Est, (Nord)' (Boulanger); found in the same place by the NYU expedition.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Museum.

History of Recording

Excavated by Mendel in 1905, copied by Boulanger (notebook A, 65 no. 29, whence B 12-13, no. 11) recorded by the NYU expedition (75.278).

Bibliography

Published by Robert Hellenica 4, 14, n. 3 from Boulanger, (cf. Robert Hellenica 11-12, 25, Hellenica 13, 157); by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 17, whence PHI 604.

Text Constituted From

Boulanger notebooks; publication; Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Face (1972)

Face (1976)

Representations

Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, page 65

Category of Text

building inscription; governor.

Category of Monument

cornice.