27. Fl. Eutolmius Tatianus honours Valentinian II Charlotte M. Roueché 2002-09-12

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Description of Monument

A white marble columnar base shaft (H. 1.03, diam. 0.54). The surface has been even more severely damaged by weather and moss than that of 26.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Description of Letters

Av. 0.035; Φ, 1, 5, 0.07; simple, lunate. Scroll for abbreviation.

Date

AD 388/392 (emperor, prosopography).

Edition Ἀγαθῇ Τύχῃτὸν τῆς ὑφ' ἡλίῳ γῆςαὐτοκράτορα καὶ τροπεοῦχονδεσπότην ἡμῶνΦλάουιον Οὐαλλεντινιανὸντὸν αἰώνιον ΑὔγουστονΦλάουιος Εὐτόλμιος Τατιανὸςὁ λαμπρότατος ἔπαρχος τοῦ ἱεροῦπρετωρίου τῇ συνήθεικαθοσιώσει ἀφιέρωσενἐπὶ Ἀντωνίου Πρίσκουτοῦ λαμπροτάτου ἡγεμόνος
Apparatus

l.5. Mendel apparently did not copy Φλ or the superfluous λ in Οὐαλλεντινιανόν; Boulanger recorded both.

ll. 7-12 have been erased. Grégoire was unaware of this erasure; Mendel saw three lines erased, Boulanger recorded two. Our readings 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 Valentinianus 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, 26, and discussion at III.24. For Antonius Priscus see List of governors, Priscus, and 25, 26 and 28, and discussion at III.30

Found

Hadrianic Baths: 'Galerie de l'Est. Colonne à droite de la porte la plus au Nord, de l'en' (Boulanger, notebook A: 'à droite de la porte', Notebook B)

Found by the current expedition standing apparently in situ in the west portico of the South Agora (although Grégoire, IGC 276. from Mendel's notes, describes it as found fallen near its plinth), flanking, on the north, the steps which descend from the east court of the baths to the portico. See plan 3.

Original Location

Findspot.

Last Recorded Location

Findspot.

History of Recording

Excavated and transcribed by Mendel in September 1905; copied by Boulanger (Boulanger (Notebook A, 61, no. 22, whence B, 3, no. 2); copied by J. and L. Robert; recorded by the NYU expedition.

Statue excavated by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.248).

Bibliography

Published by Mendel, Catalogue, no. 506.2; by Grégoire, IGC 276, from Mendel's copy; by L. Robert, Hellenica 4, 50-51, from Boulanger's notes and his own copy, whence BE 1949.178; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, 27, and Plate vii, whence PHI 662.

Statue: R. R. R. Smith (1999), 162.

Text Constituted From

Publications; Boulanger notebooks; transcription and squeeze (Roueché).

Photographs

Face (1973)

Face (1973)

View (2002)

Right side(1994)

Left side (1994)

Top of base(1994)

Representations

Boulanger Notebook A, page 61

Statue and base: Drawing: K.Gorkay, from Smith (1999)

Category of Text

honours; imperial; governor

Category of Monument

statue base shaft