41. Verse honours for Dulcitius from Valerianus; 194. Place inscriptionCharlotte M. Roueché2003-01-09
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Description of Monument
A rectangular base with panels within moulded edges on three sides (1.07 × 0.44 × 0.44).
Description of Text
41 is cut on the central panel. The final letters, or stops, in ll. 6, 7, 8, 11 and 12 are cut on the moulding. 194, a graffito, is on the left panel, and was apparently left unfinished.
Description of Letters
41: 0.02-0.03; irregular, elongated, and with
traces of red paint. 194: cut with a very shallow, broad line; 0.02 (omicron)-0.05 (cross).
Date
41: Mid-fifth century (titles, prosopography); 194: Late fifth century or later (lettering).
194 is now (since 2002) in a far better position than before.
l.3: For ΕΝΟ in ALA I now read ΕΜΟ; at the end of the line the letter might be Π.
Translation
If it was permitted, Valerianus, who was the leader of your troop, would have wished to make even a golden image of your virtue - indeed I swear by yourself. Dulcitius, because you were an unbroken tower of lawfulness. But now he has set you in marble in front of the baths, so that the stone may remain as a witness of your labours.Place of chief hot-food-seller.
Commentary
41: see discussion at IV.24; 194: see discussion at XI.11
For Dulcitius, see also 39, 40 and List of Governors, Dulcitius.
Found
Tetrastoon: re-used in the central stretch of the seventh-century defence wall which blocks off the east façade of the Theatre.
Original Location
Outside baths - the findspot perhaps suggests the Theatre Baths rather than the Hadrianic Baths.
Last Recorded Location
Museum.
History of Recording
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1972 (72.200, SBI 54).
Bibliography
Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 41 and plate x, whence PHI718, Steinepigramme02/09/09; Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 194, whence PHI388.