36. Verse honours for Anthemius;144. Invocation Charlotte M. Roueché 2003-01-09

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Description of Monument

A rectangular base without moulding, recomposed from two fragments (1.05 × 0.61 × 0.575).

Description of Text

36 is inscribed on the front face, whose rough surface may indicate that a previous inscription had been erased; the surface has been worn away by water at the left side. 144 is cut on the right side, on a surface from which a previous text appears to have been erased, and which is oddly pitted.

Description of Letters

Av. 0.035; irregular, elongated

Roughly cut; 0.035-0.065 (phi), cross 0.17.

Date

AD 405/414 (prosopography)

Fifth/sixth century or later (lettering)

Edition
θεμιιικαιιιιν σε φάλαγξ ἔστησεν, ὕπαρχε, ἀντ' εὐεργεσιῶν μικρὰ δίδουσα γέρα Ἀνθέμιε, σῴζων γὰρ ὁμοῦ δήμους τε πόλεις τε ῥύσαο καὶ Καρῶν τάξιν ἀπολλυμένην, ἣν Βερονικιανὸς διέπων θρόνον ἡγεμονῆος ἤνωγεν τεύχειν εἰκόνα μαρμαρέην.
Φῶς ΧΜΓ· Ζωή.
Translation 36. The array of the Carians set up your statue, prefect, giving a small reward for your benefactions; for, Anthemius, saving peoples and cities, you also rescued the order of the Carians, which was being destroyed, to whom the Carians Beronicianus, occupying the seat of governor, gave instructions to make a marble statue. 144. Light! Life! Mary bore Christ.
Apparatus

36: l.1: Perhaps Καρῶν σε φάλαγξ, although this seems clumsily repetitious.

144: There are traces around the cross which might be decoration or a monogram.

Line 1: perhaps Χριστὸν Μαρία Γεννᾳ

Commentary

For 36 see discussion at IV.4. The man honoured is the PPO Anthemius (405-414; PLRE II, Anthemius 1); for Beronicianus see also List of Governors, Beronicianus.

For the Carians - that is, the provincial assembly of the province of Caria - see discussion at II.37.

For 144 see discussion at VIII.16 and VIII.20.

Found

South Agora: Agora Gate: during excavation of the collecting pool.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Museum.

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1977 (77. 76, SBI 47).

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 36, and plate ix, whence PHI 716, Steinepigramme 02/09/04 and discussion, Feissel (1991), 372; Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no 144 and plate xxxiv, whence PHI 779.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

36: Face (1978)

144: Face

144: Detail (1978)

Top of base (1993)

Category of Text

verse; honours.

prayer/invocation.

Category of Monument

statue base