Description of Monument

A rectangular white marble base (1.01 × 0.48 × 0.60) with moulding, broken above and below. The stone was re-used; on the opposite face there is a half-moon in relief, suggesting that it perhaps had had a religious function. It stood rather awkwardly on a plinth formed by cutting down another base.

Description of Text

Inscribed on upper moulding (line 1) and on face below (lines 2 ff.)

Description of Letters

Av. 0.04, clear but irregular; abbreviations: scroll in ll.5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10: letter above line in ll. 3, 6, 10; l. 6, Κ, line above second Ο in ΕΠΑΙΧΟ.

Date

Late fifth/early sixth century (titulature).

Edition Ἀγαθῆι Τύχηι Τὸν ἀνανεωτὴν καὶ κτίστην τῆς μητροπόλεως καὶ εὐεργέτην πάσης Καρίας Φλάβιον Παλμᾶτον τὸν περίβλεπτον ὑπατικὸν καὶ ἐπαίχοντα τὸν τόπον τοῦ μεγαλοπρεπεστάτου βικαρίου, Φλάβιος Ἀθήνεος ὁ λαμπρότατος πατὴρ τῆς λαμπροτάτης Ἀφροδεισιέων μητροπόλεως εὐχαριστῶν ἀνέθη κεν

Translation To Good Fortune. The renewer and founder of the metropolis and benefactor of all Caria, Flavius Palmatus, spectabilis consular, also holding the position of the magnificentissimus vicar; Flavius Atheneus, the clarissimus pater of the most splendid clarissima metropolis of the Aphrodisians, set up this statue of Palmatus in gratitude.

Commentary

See also 63 and discussion at V.33.

For Palmatus see List of Governors, Palmatus.

For Atheneus see List of Local officials, Atheneus.

Found

Tetrastoon: standing against the east side of the northernmost column of the west colonnade; several other inscribed bases (64, and probably 20 and 21) stood in similar positions against other columns of this colonnade; see Plan 6

Original Location

Findspot.

Last Recorded Location

Findspot; statue in Museum.

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1972 (SBI 1) together with its accompanying statue.

Bibliography

Published by Erim in , 238, no. 208, whence 1977.605; by Roueché (1979), 173 with plate, whence 1979.1070, 1980.473, 1982.1102; republished by Roueché, no. 62 and plate xvi, whence 670.

Statue published by Erim, , 236 - 8, no. 208; discussed by Smith (1999), 168 and fig. 9, plate iii.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Base in position, with ALA 64 (1976)

Base in position (1976)

Base alone (1980)

Text (1972)

Back of base (1993)

Top of base (1993)

Representations

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

Category of Text

honours; governor

Category of Monument

statue base shaft