Description of Monument

The upper part of a white marble columnar statue base shaft (H. 0.66, din. 0.565) with a simple moulding above; The stone has weathered very badly and, especially in the erased area, has been covered in moss which has partially destroyed the surface.

Description of Text

Inscribed on moulding (l. 1) and on drum (ll. 2 ff.).

Description of Letters

Av. 0.03; Φ, l.4, 0.10, l.5, 0.07; simple, lunate; scroll for abbreviation.

Date

A.D. 388/392 (emperor, prosopography).

Edition Ἀγαθῆι Τύχηιτὸν τῆς ὑφ' ἡλίῳ γῆς αὐτοκράτορακαὶ τροπεοῦχον δεσπότην ἡμῶνΦλάουιον Ἀρκάδιον τὸν αἰώνιον ΑὔγουστονΦλάουιος Εὐτόλμιος Τατιανὸς ὁ λαμπρότατος ἔπαρχοςτοῦ ἱεροῦ πρετωρίου τῇ συνήθεικαθοσιώσει αφιέρωσενἐπὶ Ἀντωνίου Πρίσκουτοῦ λαμπροτάτου ἡγεμόνος

Apparatus

l.1, Ἀγαθῆι Mendel; line omitted by Grégoire; Ἀγαθῇ Boulanger, Robert.

l. 2, αὐτοκράτορα

ll. 5 ff, Grégoire was unaware of this erasure. Mendel saw three erased lines, followed by another two, as do we; Boulanger recorded three erased lines, and read ΟΣ at the end of l. 5. The readings given here, from the stone and from a squeeze, are very unclear.

Translation

With Good Fortune, The emperor of all the earth under the sun, and our victorious master, Flavius Arcadius the eternal Augustus. Flavius Eutolmius Tatianos, clarissimus, prefect of the sacred praetorium, dedicated this statue with the customary devotion, in the time of Antonius Priskos, clarissimus Praeses.

Commentary

For Flavius Eutolmius Tatianus see I Tatianus 5. For this group of dedications by him see 5.217, 4.11 and discussion at III.24. For Antonius Priskos see 5.217, 4.11 and 2.110, with discussion at III.30; for the monument as whole, see Smith (1999), 162.

Locations

Found: South Agora: west portico: 'Galerie de l'Est. À gauche de la porte centrale' (Boulanger). Found by the NYU expedition lying, apparently displaced, in the west portico of the South Agora, to the south of the steps which descend from the east court of the baths to the portico, and mark its central point. .. Original location: Findspot.. Last recorded location: Findspot (1994)..

Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Boulanger, Roueché); publications.

History of Recording

Excavated and transcribed by Mendel in September 1905; copied by Boulanger (Notebook A, 51, no. 2, whence B, 3, no. 1); copied by J. and L. Robert; recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Mendel, , no. 506.1; by Grégoire, 275, from Mendel's copy; by L. Robert, 4, 50-51, from Boulanger's notes and his own copy, whence 1949.178; by Roueché, , 26, and Plate vii, whence McCabe 661.

Statue: Published most recently by J. Inan and E. Alföldi, (London, 1966), no. 66; discussed by R. R. R. Smith (1999), 162.

Photographs

View (1975)

View (1965)

Face (1994)

Left side (1994)

Right side (1994)

Top of base (1994)

Representations

Boulanger, Notebook A, page 51

Squeeze (1972)

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