Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004


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22. Honours for Flavius Constantius, governor, for building the wall; 42. Flavius Ampelius restores the gate

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Text

22

Φλ(άουιον) Κωστάντιον τὸν λαμπρότατον ἡγεμόνα ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος leaf
scroll v. μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων ἔργων καὶ τὸ τεῖχος ἀναστήσαντα star

42

cross ἐπὶ εὐτυχίᾳ τῆς λαμπρᾶς [Σ]ταυρουπολίτων μητροπ(όλεως) καὶ τοῦτο τὸ ἔργον τῆς πύλης stop ἀναινεώθη
cross ἐπὶ Φλ(αουίου) Ἀμπελίου τοῦ ἐλλογιμ(ωτάτου) σχο(λαστικοῦ) κ(αὶ) πατρός stop ἰνδ(ικτίωνος) η´ cross

Translation

22. The Council and the People (have honoured) Fl(avius) Co[n]stantius, clarissimus praeses, who, as well as his other works, put up the wall.

42. For the good fortune of the splendid metropolis of the [S]tauropolitans, this work of the gate was also renewed, under Fl(avius) Ampelius, the most eloquent scholasticus and pater, in the eighth indiction.

Apparatus

22

l.1. τόν omitted by MAMA. The superscript Α was first noted by Reinach.

42

l.1. After λαμπρᾶς the text originally read ΑΦΡΟΔΙΣΙΑΙΩΝ; the letters underlined here were subsequently erased and replaced, and the Ι of ΙΩΝ altered to Τ, to read ΤΑΥΡΟΠΟΛΙΤΩΝ.

Earlier editors did not record the two stops (simple dots) or the apparent trace of a cross at the beginning of l. 2; the stone is broken here, and the reading is not certain.

Photographs

Left end (1972) Centre (1972) Right end (1972) Face (1973) Face (1975)
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Walls: north east gate and ALA 140 (2004)
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Representations

Deering notebook, page 4 Wood notebook 14, page 46

Commentary

For Flavius Constantius see also 235, List of Governors, Flavius Constantius, and discussion at III.16.

For the repair work undertaken by Flavius Ampelius see discussion at IV.33. The inscription was modified to accommodate the new name of the city, probably in the late sixth century; see discussion at VI.48.

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