<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for <rs type="textType" reg="imperial">Licinius Valerianus</rs>

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (2004).

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Description of Monument

Three adjoining fragments of a white marble statue base shaft with a moulded panel on one face. a, an upper right corner fragment, has lines 1-6 (0.23 × 0.33 × 0.30); b, a fragment with the left side moulding surviving has lines 6-20 (0.38 × 0.53 × 0.34); c, the lower part of the block, with moulding surviving on both sides and below, has lines 16-20 (0.46 × 0.46 × 0.54).

Description of Text

Inscribed within the panel; the last letter is cut on the moulding in lines 5, 6, 17, 18 and (presumably) 10.

Description of Letters

ll. 1-15. 0.025; ll 16-20, 0.022-0.023.

Ligatures: ΗΝ, l.8; ΤΗ, l.9; ΝΕ, l. 19.

Date

A.D. 253-260 (content).

Edition ἡ πόλιςον Λικίννιον Οὐαλεριανὸν υἱὸν καὶ ἀδελφὸν τῶν Σεβαστῶν τὸν ἑαυ-τῆς εὐεργέτην, προνοησαμένου τῆςἀναστάσεωςτοῦ ἀξιολογωτάτου Ἀντωνίου Νεικομάχου τοῦπατρὸς τοῦ πρώτου ἄρχοντοςἈντωνίου Κλαυδίου Νεικομάχουἀρχιερέων ἐκγό νου
Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

Translation The city has honoured us Licinius Valerianus, son and brother of the Augusti, her benefactor; the most worthy Antonius Neikomachos, father of the first archon Antonius Claudius Neikomachos, offspring of high-priests, supervised the erection of the monument.
Commentary

See discussion at I.10.

Locations

Temple/Church: loose finds, probably from a base re-used in the bema wall. Unknown. Museum and findspot (1980)..

History

b recorded by Kubitschek (K V.18, Abklatsch 23); by Gaudin (48); by the MAMA expedition; that and two further fragments (a and c) found by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Fragment published by Reinach, no. 90, from Gaudin and by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 509; all fragments published by Roueché (1981), no. 3, whence SEG 1981.906, BE 1982.357; An.Ép. 1981.767; republished by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 4, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 211.

Discusssion: Christol & Drew-Bear, Travaux & Recherches 1982, 35 no. 32, Zaccaria, Sodalitas (Festschrift Guarino) vol. 2, 697-709, An.Ép. 1984.884.

Photographs

a: Upper right corner (1976)
a: Upper right corner (1980)
b: Centre right (1976)
c: Lower left corner (1976)
c: Lower left corner (1980)

Representations

b. Kubitschek notebook V, 18