Description of Monument

A white marble rectangular statue base shaft (1.18 × 0.60 × 0.48) with panels within moulded edges on three sides.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the central panel; last letter in l. 15 cut on right moulding.

Description of Letters

l. 1, 0.045, ll. 2 ff., av. 0.03; elongated, irregular.

Date

First half of the fifth century (prosopography).

Edition τίς; πόθεν; ἐκ Λυκίης μέν, ἀριστεύσας δ' ἐνὶ θώκοις Τατιανὸς θεσμοῖς τε δίκης πτολίεθρα ξαώσας. ἀλλά με πανδαμάτωρ χρόνος ὤλλυεν, εἰ μὴ ἐμὸς παῖς ἐξ ἐμέθεν τρίτατος καὶ ὁμώνυμος ἔργα θ' ὅμοιος ἐκ δαπέδων ἀνελὼν στήλης ἔπι θῆκεν ὁρᾶσθαι πᾶσιν ἀριζηλον ναέταις ξίνοισει θ' ὁμοίως Καρῶν ἐκ γέης ὃς ἀπήλασε λοίγιον ἄτην τὴν δὲ δίκην μερόπεσιν ὁμέστιον ὤπας ἐπεῖναι πεμφθεὶς ἐκ βασιλῆος ἔθ' ἁδομένοισιν ἀρωγός.

Apparatus

References in the apparatus are to lines of the inscribed text, in the discussion to verses.

l. 7. Ν corrected from Μ.

l.10. ἐπὶ θῆκειν Peek; ἐπίθηκεν ALA; ἔπι θῆκεν Feissel. ὁπᾶσθαι Robert.

l.15. μερόπεσσιν Peek.

I. 16. Robert, with considerable reservations (loc. cit., 53 n. 3), wrote ὤπασε πείνᾳ, followed by Livrea, who suggests that the 'hunger' is the result of the poverty which marks an honest judge (45). Peek conjectured ὤπασ' ἐπεῖναι; Merkelbach suggested that πείνᾳ stood for ποινᾷ; we see a faint upright as the last letter in the line.

l. 18. ἐελδομένοισον Peek, Merkelbach.

Translation

Who is this? From where? I am Tatianus from Lycia, who held the highest officies, and by just laws saved cities. But all-conquering time would have destroyed me if my child, of the third generation, who has the same name and similar achievements, had not lifted me up from the ground and set me on a monument, to be seen and admired by all, local inhabitants and strangers alike. It is he who drove deadly ruin from the land of the Carians, and gave justice to dwell among men, when he had been sent from the emperor as a defender for the people, who still rejoice.

Commentary

For the man honoured, Flavius Eutolmius Tatianus see I Tatianus 5, and the dedications for which he was responsible, 25, 26 and 27; the statue is put up by his descendant, another Tatianus, governor of Caria (see List of Governors, Tatianus). See discussion at IV.9.

Found

Hadrianic Baths: East Court: 'devant ce passage' (Boulanger, referring to the previous entry, ALA 74: 'Passage au portique sud de la cour de l'Est').

Original Location

Probably findspot.

Last Recorded Location

Hadrianic Baths: East Court: slightly north of the southern colonnade.

History of Recording

Excavated by Mendel in 1905; recorded by Boulanger (notebook A, 59, no. 17, whence B, 9, no. 10); recorded by J. and L. Robert in 1946, Found by the current expedition standing in the same position.

Bibliography

Published from Boulanger and his own copy by Robert, 4, 47-53, and plate vii, whence 1949.178; Discussed by W. Peek in 4 (1954-5), 217-18, whence 1958.661, and by R. Merkelbach in 6 (1970), 132, whence 1971.616; published by Roueché, no. 37 and plate x, whence 725, 02/09/24. Discussed by E. Livrea, '', 119 (1997), 43-49, with D.Feissel, 1998.646, 1997.1555.

Text Constituted From

Publications;Boulanger notebooks; transcription (Roueché)

Photographs

Face (1976)

Face (1994)

Top of base (1994)

Representations

Boulanger, Notebook A, page 59

Category of Text

honours governor verse

Category of Monument

statue base shaft