21. Honours for Valens by Antonius TatianusCharlotte 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 rectangular white marble base with panels within moulding on four sides (1.21 × 0.60 × 0.575).
Description of Text
Inscribed on two opposite faces; the other text, which is unpublished, honours a distinguished citizen of the early third century.
Description of Letters
Letters: 0.03–0.04; Φ, 0.055; elongated and clear cut; similar to 20; scroll for abbreviation.
Antonius Tatianus, clarissimus praeses of the province of Caria set up this statue of Flavius Claudius Valens, Augustus.
Commentary
See discussion at III.10.
For Antonius Tatianus see also no. 20, and List of Governors, Antonius Tatianus.
Found
Theatre: re-used in the central stretch of the Theatre defence wall. See plan 6
Original location
Tetrastoon, west portico: a rectangular plinth, on which this base probably stood, is in position, against a column of the west portico of the tetrastoon, just south of the probable plinth of 20. See plan 6.
Last Recorded Location
Museum.
History of Recording
Excavated in 1972 by the NYU expedition (72.54).
Bibliography
Cited by J. R. Martindale, Historia 29 (1980), 494; published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 21 and Plate vi, whence PHI658.