17. Building inscription of Helladius

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Description

Monument: A white marble cornice block with projcting moulding (0.345 × 0.305 × 0.75).
Text: Inscribed on the upper fascia of the moulding (H. 0.113).
Letters: 0.017; clear cut, with a flowing line similar to ALA 12, 252, and 18.
Date: First half of the fourth century (lettering).

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	θῆκε κἀμὲ ἐνθάδε Ἑλλάδιος ὁ
	ἀνανεωτὴς τῆς λαμπρᾶς μητροπόλεως.

Translation

Helladius, the renovator of the splendid metropolis, established me also.

Photographs

Face (1972) Face (1976)

Representations

Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, page 65

Commentary

For Helladius see 16, 18 and List of Governors, Helladius.

For discussion see II.35.

Locations

Found: South Agora: West Portico: 'Galerie de l'E(st), (N(ord))' (Boulanger); found in the same place by the NYU expedition.
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Museum.

History

Recording: Excavated by Mendel in 1905, copied by Boulanger (notebook A, 65 no. 29, whence B 12-13, no. 11) recorded by the NYU expedition (75.278).
Bibliography: Published by •Robert Hellenica 4, 14, n. 3 from Boulanger, (cf. Robert Hellenica 11-12, 25, Hellenica 13, 157); by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 17, whence PHI 604.
Text constituted from: Boulanger notebooks; publication; Transcription (Roueché).

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