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LSA-199 Base for statue of Flavius Palmatus, governor and acting vicar. Aphrodisias (Caria). Later fifth to early sixth century.








PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City: Aphrodisias Province: Caria Region: Asia Minor
Details: Tetrastoon
Current Location: Aphrodisias Excavations
OBJECT
Object: Base, with statue Material: Marble Re-Use? Yes
Form: Rectangular Height(cm): 145 Width(cm): 75 Depth(cm): 63
Language: Greek Text Type: Prose
SUBJECT
Honorand: Flavius Palmatus Position: Provincial Governors Gender: Male
Awarder: Flavius Atheneus pater civitatis Position: Provincial Cities, their Institutions and Officials
DATE
Earliest: 450 Latest : 535
MAIN REFERENCE
Roueché, C., Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity (Journal of Roman Studies Monograph 5), London 1989, no. 62
INSCRIPTION
Text: [ cross ] Ἀγαθῆι cross Τύχηι cross / Τὸν ἀνανεωτὴν / καὶ κτίστην τῆς μητροπό(λεως) / καὶ εὐεργέτην πάσης /(5) Καρίας Φλ(άβιον) Παλμᾶτον / τὸν περίβλ(επτον) ὑπα(τικὸν) κ(αὶ) ἐπαίχο(ντα) / τὸν τόπον τοῦ μεγαλοπρ(επεστάτου) / βικαρίου, Φλ(άβιος) Ἀθήνεος / ὁ λαμπρ(ότατος) πατὴρ τῆς /(10) λαμπρ(οτάτης) Ἀφροδ(εισιέων) μητροπό(λεως) / εὐχαριστῶν ἀνέθη/κεν. leaf Trans: To Good Fortune. The renewer and founder of the metropolis and benefactor of all Caria, Flavius Palmatus, spectabilis consular, also holding the position of the magnificentissimus vicar; Flavius Atheneus, the clarissimus pater of the most splendid (i.e. clarissima) metropolis of the Aphrodisians, set up (this statue of Palmatus) in gratitude.
(Trans: C. Roueché)
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