19. Dedication to Constantius II and a Caesar by Fl. Quint. Eros MonaxiusCharlotte M. Roueché2004EnglishFrenchGermanAncient GreekModern GreekItalianLatinSpanishTurkish2004-06-08Gabriel BodardChecked and fixed all image divs and refs2004-03-16Gabriel BodardCompleted lemmatisation, checked figure ids, tagged keywords2003-11-04John LavagninoConverted beta code to Unicode2003-05-27Gabriel Bodardtidied and corrected2003-04-30Juan Garcéstidied and corrected2003-06-22CMRtagged, tidied and corrected2003-07-14JLGLemmatised2003-08-20CMRname tags reduced2004-01-16CMRtidied; image refs2003-05-27Gabriel BodardTyped and marked-up Greek
Description of Monument
A large white marble lintel block (0.87 × 4.20 × 0.50) broken in two diagonally across the face (as it probably was when Sherard saw it, and certainly when Bailie did) and broken away at the bottom (where no earlier visitor could read any more than we could).
Description of Text
Cut on the face.
Description of Letters
Letters: 0.075; elongated and decorated; square sigma and epsilon; diacritical dots over Υ in l. 2 (twice); scroll for abbreviation marks and for stops.
Date
AD 355-360, dependent on dating of Caesar (see commentary).
l.2. Sherard read ΤΗΜΗΣ. Waddington ΤΧΗΣ, but the tau was not copied by any other witnesses, or by us.
l.5. No earlier visitors copied anything in this rasura; we have (with some difficulty) examined it closely, and taken a squeeze.
l.6. After ἡγεμών Sherard read το, seen by no other witnesses, but reproduced as τε by Cormack.
l.7. At the end ΝΤΗΛΠΡΑ was read by most witnesses, but misleadingly set out in CIG, whence it was misunderstood by Cormack (see Robert, loc.cit., 162). We took a squeeze of this line. After τόν there is a trace of a cross-bar. The restoration ἐκ θεμελίων, from the traces which we discerned, is that of Robert; the phrase appears again in the closely contemporary 20.
Translation
With Good Fortune. For the health and safety and fortune and victory and eternal endurance of our masters, Flavius Julius Constantius, pious unvanquished Augustus, and Flavius Claudius Iulianus. the most renowned and most noble Caesar, Flavius Quintilius Eros Monaxius, perfectissimus praeses and former Cretarch, built the gate from the foundations for the splendid metropolis of the Aphrodisians, kin to the Cretans
Commentary
See discussion at III.4
For Flavius Quintilius Eros Monaxius see List of Governors, Monaxius.
Found
City walls: found by us in the same position, and in virtually the same condition, as by the earlier visitors, cut on the large lintel over the west gate in the city wall, on the outer (west) face. The gate itself is decorated with a considerable amount of re-used relief sculpture. See plan 7.
Original Location
Findspot.
Last Recorded Location
Findspot.
History of Recording
This inscription, which confronted every traveller who arrived at Aphrodisias before the construction of the new road to Tavas in the late 1960s, is one of the most frequently published from the site. It was copied by Sherard in 1705 (BM Add 10101 f.9); by von Richter; by Fellows ; the first four lines were copied by Wood in 1750. Bailie copied the inscription and checked it later; from this he produced a new and inaccurate distribution of the lines, which he presented with pride as an improvement on the text of Boeckh (Researches, 35-42); by Waddington. Recorded by Gaudin (180); by the MAMA expedition; recorded and restored by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography
Published by Francke, 73, from von Richter; by Boeckh, 2744, from Sherard and von Richter; by Fellows, no. 18, whence CIG add. 1109; from these Texier, no. 1; by Bailie, 46; by Waddington, LBW1626; mentioned by Reinach, 137, from Gaudin; by Jacopi, 170; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 426 ; by L.Robert, Hellenica 13, 158-167 whence BE1966.393, BE1968.507; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 19 whence PHI607.