Description of Monument

a. A white marble base capital, for a columnar base, and b. the white marble columnar shaft of a statue base with simple moulding above and below (H. 1.16; diam. 0.53). The moulding is cut into on both sides, as is the shaft itself on one side, as if it had served as a support for a balustrade (or perhaps for re-use in the defence wall). The moulding is half smoothed, and half left rough. The statue also survives: see Smith (2001).

Description of Text

Line 1 is on a simple column capital, inscribed at the top of the drum; lines 2-13 are on the shaft, but the inscription is not centred in respect of the moulding.

Description of Letters

Elongated and elegant, except for the last word in l.2, which has been inserted in a rasura, and is clumsily cut; l.1, 0.03; ll.2-3, 0.025; ll.3-7, 9 ff., 0.03; 1. 8, 0.035; Φ, 0.05; scroll for abbreviation.

Date

AD 361/363

Edition Ἀγαθῆι Τύχηι·Φλάουιον Κλαύδιον Ἰουλιανὸν Θεοδόσιον τὸν αἰώνιονκαὶ εὐσεβέστατον ΑὔγουστονἈντώνιος Τατιανὸς ὁ λαμπρότατος ἡγεμὼνπᾶν τὸ ὁρώμενονἔργον τοῦ τετραστώου ἐκ θεμελίων καὶ τὸνπερικειμένον σύμπαντα κόσμον τῇ μητροπόλι κατασκευάσας

Apparatus

l.2: Θεοδόσιον added in a later hand, in rasura; the erased name must be Ἰουλιανόν.

Translation

To Good Fortune. Antonius Tatianus, clarissimus praeses, having built all the work of the tetrastoon that can be seen from the foundations, and all the surrounding decoration, for the metropolis, set up this statue of Flavius Claudius Julianus later emended to Theodosius, the eternal and most pious Augustus.

Commentary

See discussion at III.10. For Antonius Tatianus see also no. 21 and List of Governors, Antonius Tatianus; for the monument as whole, see Smith (2001).

Found

Tetrastoon: re-used in the northern stretch of the seventh-century defence wall which blocks off the east end of the Theatre. See plan 6

Original Location

Tetrastoon, west portico: A round plinth, on which this stone probably stood, is apparently in its original position, against the west portico, just south of 62 and 65. See plan 6.

Last Recorded Location

Museum.

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1976 and 1977 (inv. nos. base: 77. 136, SBI 27, capital: 76. 112).

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, no. 20, and Plate vii, whence 657.

Statue: R. R. R. Smith (1999) 161-2; R. R. R. Smith, '' in C. Reusser ed. (Berlin, 2001) 125-136.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Base capital (1977)

Base shaft (1978)

Base shaft (1980)

Base shaft (1983)

Face (1978)

Representations

Statue and base: Drawing: K.Gorkay, from Smith (2001)

Category of Text

honours; building inscription; imperial; governor.

Category of Monument

statue base