Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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15. Honours for an amicus principum
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).
Text
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[...]ο̣μ̣νv.ο̣ι̣ ̣ι̣ι̣ι̣ι̣[...]
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[...]φίλον τῶν βα[σιλέων][...]
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Translation
[...] friend of the emperors [...]
Photographs
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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