5. Honours for M. Aurelius Diogenes Charlotte M. Roueché 2004

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Description of Monument

Two adjoining fragments of a white marble statue base shaft, complete above (0.45 × 1.10 × 0.45).

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.

Description of Letters

ll. 1-11, 0.025; ll. 12-20, 0.015.

Ligatures: ΝΗΝ, l. 3; ΗΝ, l. 4; ΤΗ, ll.6, 12; ΝΗ, l.12

Date

AD 253-260 (content)

Edition Ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος Μᾶρκον ΑὐρήλιονΔιογένην πρεσβευτὴν Σεβαστῶν ἀντιστράτηγον τὸν δίκαιον καὶ ἁγνὸνκαὶ ἀνδρεῖονκαὶ πάσῃ ἀρετῇ κεκοσμημένον προνοησαμένου τῆςἀναστάσεως Ἀντωνίου Νεικομάχουτοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ πρώτου ἄρχοντος Ἀντωνίου Κλαυδίου Νεικομάχου ἀρχιερέων ἐκγόνου τοῦ ἀξιολογωτάτου
Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

Translation The Council and the People have honoured Marcus Aurelius Diogenes, legatus Augustorum pro praetore, he who is just, and decent, and brave, and adorned with every virtue; the most worthy Antonius Nicomachus, father of the first archon Antonius Claudius Nicomachus, offspring of high-priests, supervised the erection of the monument.
Commentary

See discussion at I.14; for Diogenes, see List of Governors, M. Aur. Diogenes; for Nicomachus see Local Officials, Nicomachus.

Found

City walls: reused in the southern stretch, section excavated in 1975.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Museum.

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.330 and 332; statue base index 38a & b).

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, (1981), 4, whence SEG 1981.908, BE 1982.357, An.Ép. 1981.768; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 5. whence PHI 254.

Photographs

Lower part (1977)

Upper part (1978)

Top of base (1993)

Assembled (1994)

Category of Text

honours; governor

Category of Monument

statue base shaft