Description of Monument

White marble statue base shaft ( 0.55 x 1.22 x 0.55) with fully cut moulded panels on three sides and a roughed out moulding at the back, chipped along all edges; there are clamp holes on top for the attachment of a crowning cornice which no doubt carried a statue and was also inscribed.

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face (panel 0.385 x 1.04).

Letters

0.02-0.03.

Date

241-248 (career)

Edition ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησαν Λούκιον Ἐγνάτιον Βίκτορα Λολλιανὸν τὸν λαμπρότατον ἀνθυπατον πολλακις ἁγνὸν καὶ δίκαιον καὶ πάσης ἀρετῆς κόσμον προνοησαμένου Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Ἰουλίου Κανδιδου Ἡγεμονέως υἱοῦ καὶ ἐκγόνου Ἀσίας ἀρχιερέων καὶ ἀρχιερέων συνγενοῦς ὑπατικῶν τοῦ πρώτου ἄρχον τος

Translation

[e.g. The Council and the People (honoured) L. Egnatius Victor Lollianus, clarissimus, proconsul on several occasions, pure and just and the adornment of every virtue. The respobnsvibility (for the statue) was taken by Tiberius Claudius Julius Candidus Hegemoneus, being First Archon, son and grandson of highpriests of Asia and highpriest (of the city), cousin of consulars.

Commentary

For L. Egnatius Victor Lollianus, see PIR2, E, 36; for further discussion, see Reynolds, loc. cit.

Locations

City, South-west: reused in a field wall near the eastern side of the west city wall. Museum (1988) Unknown

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Found by the NYU expedition in 1988 (88.7; SBI 40)

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds in Y. Le Bohec ed, (Brussels, 1994), 675-80, 675-6, whence BullEp 1996.39, 44, 1994.863

Photographs

Face (1988)