Imperial dedication
created: Transcription (Reynolds) (a. from photograph)
source date: CE 364-375
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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Bibliography

a: [...], 512 (36), p. 252, Pl. CII, fig. 90, whence [...] 9.364, [...] 324213; discussed [...], 80-81 with Plate LIV; mentioned [...], 72.

Αὐτοκρατόρων Καιϲάρων Φλαουίων Οὐαλεντινιανοῦ καὶ Οὐάλεντοϲ καὶ Γρατιανοῦ τῶν αἰωνίων Αὐγούϲτων

[...]ϲιοϲ ὁ λαμπρότατοϲ ἡγεμων [...]

[...] ἐκ θεμελίων ἀνέστηϲεν καὶ παντὶ αὐτοῦ κόϲμῳ

ω[...]ι [...]ια

τω[...]ϲριλ [...]κο[...]

ιι

Apparatus

Translations

a only: (essendo- degli ?) imperatori F. Valentiniano [e Fl. Valente] -

i: [The emperors and Caes]ars Flavius Valentinia[n and Flavius] Valens and Gratian the [eternal A]ugusti . .

ii: -sios the distinguished governor clarissimus praeses . . .

iii: . . . [erected] from the foundations with all [its] decoration . . .

iv-vi: not usefully translatable.

Commentary

Valentinian, Valens and Gratian were emperors together from 364 to 375

It is possible to reconstruct part of the opening formula (i) and identify fragments from the title of the responsible official (ii) from the description of the work executed (iii).

ii: the governor's name ended -sios. The praeses who apparently honoured the same emperors in P.119 had a name ending -ius. He, however, is described as v(ir) p(erfectissimus), not, as here, clarissimus. This may indicate several interventions during the reign, under different governors, to be associated with other evidence for a major rebuilding in this street in the late fourth to fifth century in P.122, P.136 and P.137, very probably to repair damage caused by the earthquake of 364