<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for Lucius Antonius Karpion Aurelianos, who has established a <rs type="textType">foundation</rs>

Joyce M. Reynolds 2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Rectangular white marble statue base shaft, with moulded panels on all four sides in two large joining fragments (together 0.49 × 1.125 × 0.49) and one small fragment of ll. 14-16 (0.165 × 0.21 × 0.10);

Description of Text

Inscribed on two adjacent faces. Face a, to the left, has broken moulding, and is broken down the left side. Face b is pitted to receive plaster. The moulding on face a survives at the upper edge; the text must therefore have begun on an upper feature. Traces of the plaster which covered the inscriptions when the stone was re-used are still adhering.

Letters

Face a: 0.02; ligatured ΝΤ l.14, ΗΜ l.15, ΝΗ l.22, 23, ΤΕ l.23. Apex on ΥΙ, l.5. Circular stops. Face b: 0.025; Π with a vertical line through the cross-bar, presumably ΠΙ in ligature, line 3.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, prosopography).

Edition
e.g. ἥ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησαν ταῖς καλλίσταις καὶ μεγίσταις τει μαις Λούκιον Ἀν τώνιον Ἑρμοῦ υἱ ὸν Καρπιώνα Αὐ ρηλιανὸν ἄνδρα ἀπὸ προγόνων εὐ γενῶν καὶ λειτουρ γῶν λειτουργήσαν τα δὲ καὶ αὐτὸν πα σας τὰς κατὰ δυνα μιν ἀρχάς τε καὶ λι τουργίας ζήσαντα κοσμίως καὶ αἰδημό νως ἀναθέντα δὲ τῇ ἱερωτάτῃ βουλῇ εἰς αἰώνιον κλῆρον τὰ δηλούμενα διὰ τῆς γεγονυίας ὑπὸ αὐτου ἀναθέσεως γενομένης ἐπὶ στε φανηφόρου τὸ Ϛ Λου κίου Ἀντωνίου Δομε τείνου Διογένους μηνὸς Δείου
προθεσμία κλήρου μηνὶ ι ι πι
Translation

a: [? The Council and the People] honoured with the finest and greatest honours Lucius Antonius Karpion Aureleianos, son of Hermas, a man whose ancestors were well-born and liturgists. He himself also undertook all the magistracies and liturgies ?that he could, and lived in a well-regulated and modest manner. Moreover he dedicated to the most sacred Council for the purpose of a permanent ?distribution the sum indicated in his act of dedication which was made in the sixth stephanephorate of Lucius Antomius Dometinos Diogenes, in the month Deios.

b: Announcement of the lottery in the tenth month, 10 (denarii), to 80 people?

Commentary

The parallel with 11.110 suggests that the numbers in b.3 are to be read as numerals, to give the month, the size of the lot, and the number of the recipients. This would give a total of 800 denarii to be handed out.

Locations

Unknown Temple/Church: re-used on the north side of the Byzantine chancel-barrier, third base from east. Findspot; small fragment in Museum (1978).

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); Deering notebook.

History of Recording

Deering saw and copied side b (5v, no. 22); complete text, on both sides, recorded by the NYU expedition (Temple 3; SBI 90).

Bibliography

Published by Leake, from Deering, 8, whence LBW 1628a whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 948.

Photographs

a. 1-18 (1978)
a. 18-26 (1977)
a. 1-26 (1968)
a. 1-26, with face b (1968)
a. fragment (1977)
Face b. (1976)

a: Together: JMR.1.66.67, 76;

Representations

Face b: Deering notebook 5v