65. The city honours Vitianus, governorCharlotte M. Roueché2004
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Description of Monument
A rectangular white marble statue base shaft (0.86 × 0.47 × 0.40) with panels within moulded edges on three sides.
Description of Text
Inscribed on the central panel; on the right side panel the letters ΤΑ have been cut.
Description of Letters
0.02-0.03; irregular, and in varying forms; abbreviations: scroll above line in l. 4; letter above line in l. 5; there are apparently superfluous letters in lines 7 and 9.
Date
Late fifth/early-mid sixth century (offices; titles).
l.1: Whatever stood at the beginning of the line—the outline suggests a cross—has been deeply erased.
l.7: The Α at the end of the line, which conforms to the other letters, might be a numeral or a false start in writing ἀνέθηκεν.
1.9: The Α is very roughly written, and has the appearance of a rough graffito addition.
Translation
The splendid and well-known metropolis of the Aphrodisians set up this statue of Vitianus, clarissimus scholasticus and consular, their own benefactor and agonothete.
Commentary
See discussion at V.38.
For Vitianus see List of Governors, Vitianus.
Found
Theatre: north scaena.
Original Location
Unknown.
Last Recorded Location
Museum.
History of Recording
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1970 (70.226, SBI 26).
Bibliography
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 65 and plate xvi, whence PHI669.