Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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35. Flavius Septimius a benefactor
Description
- Monument:
Four fragments—three of which join to form a.—from a series of white marble panels with three fasciae, divided by grooves,
and diminishing in height from top to bottom; a: three joining fragments, with left edge surviving (0.30 × 0.69 × 0.025). b: broken at both ends (0.30 × 0.51 × 0.055). Such variation in the thickness of revetment panels over a large area is not unusual.
- Text:
Inscribed on the upper, tallest fascia.
- Letters:
0.11; Φ is at least 0.17, extending onto the fascia below, and must have extended on to the panel above. Simple, lightly cut.
- Date:
?Fourth century (lettering).
Text
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[...] vac. Φλ(αβίου) Σεπ̣(?τιμι)[?...]
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[... μητ]ροπολ̣[...]
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Translation
a. [...]Fl(avius) Sep(?timius) [...]
b. [...] metropolis [...]
Photographs
| a: Face (1975) |
b: Face (1977) |
b: Face (1966) |
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Commentary
See discussion at III.41.
Locations
- Found:
'Bishop's Palace': a found re-used as a step in a doorway of the apsed room; b found in MAB, stratum 1.
- Original:
Unknown.
- Last Recorded:
Museum.
History
- Recording:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1966 (66.195).
- Bibliography:
Published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 35 whence PHI 666.
- Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché).
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