Description of Monument

A white marble lintel block with egg and dart moulding above two stepped fasciae (0.75 × 4.95 × 0.95); the condition of the stone appears not to have altered since it was first recorded.

Description of Texts

i. is cut on the upper fascia, and ii. on the lower. A cross flanked by an alpha and an omega within a circle was later cut over i., probably at the time that ii. was cut, or perhaps when it was emended.

Description of Letters

i. l. 1, 0.07, l. 2, 0.08; elongated, well-cut and regular; the Α of ἡγεμόνα was added above the line, 0.03; scroll for abbreviation; b. 0.04. ii. 0.07; well cut; abbreviations: last letter above line in ΜΗΤΡΟΠο, ΕΛΛΟΓΙΜο, ΣΧο; scroll in Φλαουίου, καὶ, ἰνδικτίωνος.

Date

i: A.D. 365/370 (titulature) ii (and i.b): Mid fifth century (titulature, prosopography).

Edition

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché); Deering; publications.

Apparatus

i. l.1. τόν omitted by MAMA. The superscript Α was first noted by Reinach.

ii. l.1. After λαμπρᾶς the text originally read ΑΦΡΟΔΙΣΙΑΙΩΝ; the letters highlighted here were subsequently erased and replaced, and the Ι of ΙΩΝ altered to Τ, to read ΤΑΥΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ.

Earlier editors did not record the two stops (simple dots) or the apparent trace of a cross at the beginning of l. 2; the stone is broken here, and the reading is not certain.

Translation

i. The Council and the People have honoured Flavius Constantius, clarissimus praeses, who, as well as his other works, put up the wall.

ii. For the good fortune of the splendid metropolis of the Stauropolitans, this work of the gate was also renewed, under Flavius Ampelios, the most eloquent scholasticus and pater, in the eighth indiction.

Commentary

i: For Flavius Constantius see also 6.4, and discussion at III.16.

ii: For Flavius Ampelios see also 4.202, 2.19, 8.609 and discussion at IV.33..

Locations

Walls, North-east: over the North-east Gate in the city wall, with the inscription on the west (inner) face; see . Findspot Findspot (2004)

History of Recording

Copied in 1705 by Sherard (BM Add. 10101, f. 11); by Wood; by Sestini; by von Richter; by Deering; perhaps by Texier; by Fellows; probably by Bailie (since he gives the wrong line divisions, different from those in earlier editions, the mistake may originate in his own note-book); copied by Le Bas; by Kubitschek and Reichel; recorded by Gaudin (1); by the MAMA expedition; by L. Robert; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Sestini (, 113); by F. Graese from Gell ( VIII, 706); by Francke from Gell and von Richter, 428 nos. 74 and 75; by Boeckh, 2745, 2746, from all these and the Sherard papers, whence Texier, iii 159, no. 2; cited by Fellows,pp. 35-6, no. 17; published by Bailie, . ii 16-17 and 272-274, no. 45; by Waddington, from Le Bas, LBW 593, 594; cited by Kubitschek and Reichel ( 1893, p. 103); published from Gaudin's squeeze, Reinach, 19, 1906, 227-230, no. 136, whence Grégoire, . 270; cited and a photograph published by Robert, 4, 61 note 2 and 130 note 5, whence 1949.178, 1956.277; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, 8, no. 427; by Roueché, nos. 22 (i), 42 (ii) and plate vi, whence McCabe 609, 619.

Photographs

Left end (1972)

Centre (1972)

Right end (1972)

Face (1973)

Face (1975)

Walls: north east gate and ALA 140 (2004)

Transcriptions

Deering notebook, page 4

Wood notebook 14, page 46