26. Fl. Eutolmius Tatianus honours ArcadiusCharlotte M. Roueché2002-09-12EnglishFrenchGermanAncient GreekModern GreekItalianLatinSpanishTurkish2004-06-08Gabriel BodardChecked and fixed all image divs and refs2004-03-22Gabriel BodardCompleted lemmatisation, checked figure ids, tagged keywords2003-11-04Gabriel BodardCorrected errors in Greek2003-11-04John 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 reduced2004-01-23CMRtidied; image refs
Description of Monument
The upper part of a white marble columnar base shaft (H. 0.66, din. 0.565) with a simple moulding above; The stone has weathered very badly and, especially in the erased area, has been covered in moss which has partially destroyed the surface.
Description of Text
Inscribed on moulding (l. 1) and on drum (ll. 2 ff.).
Description of Letters
Av. 0.03; Φ, l.4, 0.10, l.5, 0.07; simple, lunate; scroll for abbreviation.
l.1. Ἀγαθῆι Mendel; line omitted by Grégoire; Ἀγαθῇ Boulanger, Robert.
l.2. αὐτοκράτορα Grégoire
ll. 5 ff. Grégoire was unaware of this erasure. Mendel saw three erased lines, followed by another two, as do we; Boulanger recorded three erased lines, and read ΟΣ at the end of l.5. The readings given here, from the stone and from a squeeze, are very unclear.
Translation
With Good Fortune, The emperor of all the earth under the sun, and our victorious master, Flavius Arcadius the eternal Augustus. Flavius Eutolmius Tatianus, clarissimus, prefect of the sacred praetorium, dedicated this statue with the customary devotion, in the time of Antonius Priscus, clarissimus Praeses.
Commentary
For Flavius Eutolmius Tatianus see PLRE I Tatianus 5. For this group of dedications by him see 25, 27 and discussion at III.24. For Antonius Priscus see List of governors, Priscus, and 25, 27 and 28, with discussion at III.30; for the monument as whole, see Smith (1999), 162.
Found
South Agora: west portico: Galerie de l'Est. À gauche de la porte centrale (Boulanger). Found by the NYU expedition lying, apparently displaced, in the west portico of the South Agora, to the south of the steps which descend from the east court of the baths to the portico, and mark its central point. See plan 3.
Original Location
Findspot.
Last Recorded Location
Findspot.
History of Recording
Excavated and transcribed by Mendel in September 1905; copied by Boulanger (Notebook A, 51, no. 2, whence B, 3, no. 1); copied by J. and L. Robert; recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography
Published by Mendel, Catalogue, no. 506.1; by Grégoire, IGC275, from Mendel's copy; by L. Robert, Hellenica 4, 50-51, from Boulanger's notes and his own copy, whence BE1949.178; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, 26, and Plate vii, whence PHI 661.
Statue: Published most recently by J. Inan and E. Alföldi, Roman and early Byzantine portait sculpture from Asia Minor (London, 1966), no. 66; discussed by R. R. R. Smith (1999), 162.