32. The Phrygian Metropolis honours Alexander, in verseCharlotte M. Roueché2004
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Description of Monument
An octagonal white marble base shaft (H. 1.05, on a plinth 0.21; W. 0.50) with two inscriptions. The first, probably dating from the first or early second century AD (unpublished), has been partially erased, and the base placed so that it faces the wall.
Description of Text
32 occupies two faces, diametrically opposite the first text.
Description of Letters
II. 1-3, 0.04; II. 4-8. 0.035; I. 9, 0.045; clearly cut, irregular; lunate in I. 9, otherwise square.
Date
Late fourth or fifth century (lettering, content).
6. There is a cross-bar in the first Ο, making a Θ; Π has been corrected from Η.
7. Π has apparently been corrected from Τ.
Translation
A stone image of the just Alexander the mother of Phrygia sent here to the mother of Caria, (as) an undying mark of his god-like rule; but all words fall short of the man's good cheer. With good fortune!
Commentary
For Alexander see List of Governors Alexander.
For the text, see discussion at III.35. For the statue and the monument as whole, see Smith (1999) 165-7.
Found
North Agora: standing against the north wall of the north stoa some way west of 31. See plan 1.
Original Location
Findspot.
Last Recorded Location
Findspot.
History of Recording
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1965 (65.396). The accompanying statue, whose head is lost, was found lying beside the base, and is now in the Museum.
Bibliography
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 32 whence PHI713, C. P. Jones, Hermes 125 (1997), 212-14, Steinepigramme02/09/02.
Statue: K. T. Erim in Turk Ark. Derg. 15.1 (1966), 61, 66; Smith (1999), 165-7.
Text Constituted From
Transcription (Roueché).
Photographs
Face (1973)
Face
(1994)
Left panel (1972)
Left panel (1994)
Right panel (1973)
Top of base
(1994)
Representations
Statue and base: Drawing: K.Gorkay, from Smith (1999)