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Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble statue base shaft, without moulding (0.57 × 1.14 × 0.56). The stone is complete; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

ll.1-11, 0.025; ll.12 following, 0.02.

Date

A.D. 198-210 (Caracalla's reign)

Edition αὐτοκράτορα Καίσαρα Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον ΣεουῆρονἈντωνεῖνον Σεβαστὸν μέγιστον υἱὸν τοῦ μεγίστου καὶ θειοτάτου αὐτοκράτορος Καίσαρος Λουκίου Σεπτιμίου Σεουήρου Περτίνακος Σεβαστοῦ εὐσεβοῦς Ἀραβι κοῦ Ἀδιαβηνικοῦ Παρθικοῦ ὁ δῆμος ἐξ ἀπολείψεως Φλαβίου Ἀττάλου ἐπιμεληθέντων Ἀμμιανοῦ τοῦ Παπίου γ τοῦ Μαρίωνος Παπίου καὶ Ἐπαφροδείτου υἱοῦ Μάρκου Ἀντωνείνου Ἐπαφροδείτου καὶ Παπίου γ τοῦ Διογένουςκαὶ Καλλιμόρφου δὶς τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώρου καὶ Μενάνδρου δὶς τοῦ Κρα τέρου ἀρχόντων
Apparatus

Letters highlighted were read by earlier copyists, but not by us.

Translation

[Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus] Antoninus Augustus, the greatest, son of the greatest and most divine Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pertinax Augustus Pius, conqueror of the Arabs, conqueror of the Adiabenes, conqueror of the Parthians: the People (put up his statue) from the bequest of Flavius Attalos. The magistrates Ammianos son of Papias the son of Papias, the son of Marion Papias, and Epaphroditos, son of Marcus Antonius Epaphroditos, and Papias, (son of Papias, son of Papias) the son of Diogenes, and Kallimorphos son of Kallimorphos the son of Artemidoros, and Menandros, son of Menandros, the son of Krateros, took responsibility.

Commentary

Another statue of Caracalla (12.641), and one of Julia Domna (12.642), were set up from the same bequest.

Locations

Walls, East (south part), on the inner face, just north of the South-east gate, near 12.325 , 12.317 Unknown Findspot (1973)

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Deering; publications

History of Recording

Copied by Deering (f.3v, no. 14); copied by Waddington; recorded by K&R (squeeze); recorded by Gaudin (44); recorded by the MAMA expedition; recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Leake, from Deering, no. 4; by Waddington, LBW 1623; by Reinach, from Gaudin, no. 21; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 451, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 208.

Photographs

Face (1973)

Representations

Deering notebook, page 3v