15. Honours for an amicus principum

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Description

• Monument: White marble block (0.35 × 0.22 × 0.42) with upper and lower edges surviving, and with rough sides; either cut down, or from a composite monument.
• Text: Inscribed on the face, which is extremely worn.
• Letters: 0.025-0.04; simple, elongated, shallowly cut; similar to those of 12.
• Date: First half of the fourth century (lettering).

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Translation

[...] friend of the emperors [...]

Photographs

Face (1978)

Commentary

See 14 and discussion at II.25.

Locations

• Found: Theatre: sector V.
• Original: Unknown.
• Last Recorded: Museum.

History

• Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1968 (68.401; recatalogued as 74.280).
• Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 15, whence PHI 454 (wrongly) and 665.
• Text constituted from: Copies (Reynolds, Roueché).

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