Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2.1883-1884(1888))

IN ASIA MINOR.

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Side B, No. 3.
IMPCMAVRVAL
M A X I M I A N 0
FINVICTAVG

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A E S A R I B

Side j9, No. 4.

I M P C A S

M A P C A P 0

ETIMPCAES

M A V R V A L

M A X I M I A N 0

P F A V G <MM
It seems that Side A must fall into two fragments of inscriptions :
the one having been partially hacked off to give place to a new one,
which, in its turn, was left in an incomplete state. It is not easy to
unravel Nos. 1 and 2, owing to the fact that No. 2 does not furnish
data enough to justify an attempt at restoration. Accordingly I simply
transcribe in minuscules the text as it stands on- the stone :

Nos. 1 and 2.

(Duobus) .d(ominis) n(ostris) Fl(avio) Cl(audio) Con-
stantino Maximo [P(io) Fielici) In\\icto) Aug(usto)]
et Fl(avio) Jul(io) Constantio et Fl(avio) Cl^audio)

Constantifno.........] victorib(us) semp(er)

[Ajug(ustis)

[A]b Antiochia
Pontif(ici) Max(imo), trib(uniciae) pot(estatis) XIII,
Co(n)s(uli) III, p(ro) P(raetore). Mil lia) p(assuum) (quinque).

We are not without proof that the people of this region of country
were ignorant both of the number and the names of their rulers; see
Mommsen's remarks in the Ephemcris Epigraphica, 18S4, P- 594,
No. 1403. This ignorance is shown in our inscription by the
omission of the name of Flavius Julius Constans, and by the fact that
the D D N N claims that there were only two emperors.