Description of Monument

Plain white marble statue base shaft chipped on all edges (0.58 × 1.31 x 0.49).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

ll. 1-12, 0.045-0.05; ll. 13-14, 0.025. Ligatures: ΝΝ, l.8.

Date

A.D. 210-217 (reign, nomenclature).

Edition Αὐτοκράτορα Καίσαρα Μᾶρ κον Αὐρήλιον Σεουῆρον ἈντωνεῖνονΕὐσεβῆ Σεβαστὸν Βρεταννικὸν Μέγιστον ὁ δῆμος ἐξ ἀπολείψεως Φλαβίου Ἀττάλου ἐπιμεληθέντος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Χρησίμου τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου

Apparatus

l. 1, first two letters damaged; Α is clearly legible but Υ is not.

l. 14, the final Υ is tall.

Translation

Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus Antoninus Pius Augustus, Britannicus Maximus. The People put up his statue from the bequest of Flavius Attalos. Marcus Aurelius Chresimos, son of Apollonios, undertook care of the erection.

Commentary

This text must have accompanied a statue of Caracalla, whose name included the element Britannicus from 210 A.D.

Another statue of Julia Domna (12.642=MAMA 452) which is a pair to this, was found in the same area; a further statue of Caracalla (12.326=MAMA 451) was set up from the same bequest.

The epimelete is not otherwise known at present.

Locations

Unknown Walls, South (east part): excavation on inner side of S. wall, trench 1; reused. Museum (1977)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.326; SBI 35)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1976)

Face (1977)

Face (2001)

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