<rs type="textType" reg="statue dedication"> Statue dedication</rs> by Flavius Andronikos

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (2004).

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Description of Monument

A rectangular white marble statue base shaft, with moulding at the upper and lower edges (0.57 × 1.165 × 0.485), which has been re-used.

Description of Text

The first line—on the upper moulding—is from an earlier text, which has been erased from the face and replaced by the present text.

Description of Letters

l. 1, 0.02; probably second century. ll. 2-6, letters lightly cut, elongated and irregular; l. 3 was inserted after the main text had been cut and is in smaller letters (0.03-0.035) than those of the main text (0.04-0.05); lunate sigma and cursive omega.

Date

c. A.D. 324-350 (lettering, content).

Edition Ἀγαθῇ Τύχῃ·Φλάβιος Ἀνδρόνικοςὁ διασημότατοςἐποίει καὶ τῇ αὑτοῦπατρίδι ἐδωρήσατο
Translation With Good Fortune. Flavius Andronikos, perfectissimus, made this and gave it to his own homeland.
Commentary

See discussion at II.25.

Locations

Found: Bouleuterion/Odeon: at the west side, re-used in the wall between rear chambers 4 and 5.. Unknown.. Findspot (1980)..

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1964 (64.278).

Bibliography

Published by Erim and Roueché (1982), no. 3, whence SEG 1982.1107; BE 1984.405, SEG 1985.1082 and discussion by D. Rössler, 'Andronikos IV', in Künstlerlexikon der Antike (Munchen/Leipzig, 2001); by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 13, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 169; by Erim and Reynolds (1991), no. 14, whence SEG 1990.937..

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché).

Photographs

Face (1972)
Face (1980)
Top of base (1994)