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SCULTORI DA AFRODISIADE: ALCUNE NUOVE ISCRIZIONITre nuove iscrizioni da Aphrodisias in Caria descrivono i cittadini locali — Flavius Zeno e Flavius Andronicus — come autori delle statue (ora perse) che stanno dedicando. Essi sono probabilmente il Flavius Zeno e il Flavius Andronicus di Aphrodisias le cui ‘firme’ — con l'asserzione che essi hanno ‘fatto’, ἐποίει, le statue — appaiono sui plinti di alcune statue trovate sull'Esquilino. II titolo da essi usato — sia ad Aphrodisias che a Roma — non può essere anteriore al IV secolo. Ciò solleva problemi circa la datazione delle statue provenienti dall'Esquilino — attualmente nella Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen — che fino ad ora sono state attribuite al secondo secolo. Sarà necessario ridatare queste opere, o presumere che le ‘firme’ vennero aggiunte su statue anteriori. Flavius Zeno e Flavius Andronicus godevano di una posizione insolitamente elevata per cittadini privati ad Aphrodisias in questo periodo. II titolo di Flavius Zeno di alto sacerdote, che usa in tutte le iscrizioni, è stato cancellato in uno dei testi ad Aphrodisias; può darsi che il suo sacerdozio non appartenesse al culto imperiale ma alla religione pagana, introdotta da Massimino.

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During the 1970 campaign of excavations at Aphrodisias in Caria, investigations begun during the previous summer in the Portico of Tiberius were continued and brought to light some 150 fragments of marble panels bearing inscriptions in Latin in a hand of the fourth century A.D. Initially, these fragments were considered additional evidence to the considerable harvest of pieces of Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices found in the course of preceding seasons. Most of them, indeed, proved to belong to the Edict. On closer examination and more careful transcription, however, it became clear that, while the Price Edict was cut on free standing panels, most of which were c. 0·12–0·14 m thick, a small number of fragments belonged to thicker panels.

One group of fragments from the Aphrodisias copy of Diocletian's Edict on Maximum Prices has already been published in this Journal; and the discovery of some 150 new pieces in the Portico of Tiberius during the campaign of excavation in 1970 has also been announced; more in fact came to light in the same area in 1971 and 1972. Work has proceeded meanwhile on the assembly of what may be described as an enormous jig-saw puzzle in which many of the pieces are too heavy to move freely, and others too heavy to move at all without tackle. It will take some time to complete, but there seems a case for publishing now the somewhat idiosyncratic version of the imperial titles which headed the copy and one substantial section of the price list which it has been possible to recompose in large part. All the fragments used are stored in the Aphrodisias Depot.