i. <rs type="textType">Letter</rs> from a Roman official <seg cert="low">(a curator)</seg> to Aphrodisias. ii <rs type="textType">Place inscription</rs> of Kyriakos, trouser-maker

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in Roueché (2004).

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Description of Monument

Two fragments from a white marble door post from the right side of a door, 1. fragment with right side surviving (0.15 x 0.19 x 0.07). 2. larger fragment ( 1.34 × 0.42 × 0.42) broken above and below and damaged on the surface.

Description of Text

i a: inscribed on a projecting area of 1; b (inscribed area 0.26, H. 0.30) is inscribed on 2, and ii. is inscribed some 10 cm lower down.

Description of Letters

i. a: ll.1, 3-5, 0.015; l.2, 0.01; dots on either side of Α in l.1, and Ε in l.2, between S and E in l.3. b: 0.008; dots for stops in ll 7, 10. Ligatures: ΗΝ ll 9, 10, ΗΝ ll. 11, 12. ii. Lightly cut and sprawling, 0.03-0.05.

Date

i. Second century A.D. (lettering); ii. Fifth to sixth centuries A.D. (location, content)

Edition
διὰ το Ἀφροδεισιεις επη εντας ε οσ λογισν ὀνομα γ
ενο ατακο αν ὑπὲρ επωνετ εδεεαστα μετὰ τῆς σοι προσηκούσης ἐπι μελείας ἅμα προνοούμε νος καὶ τοῦ τὰ ὀφειλόμενα τῶν χρημάτων εἰσπράττεσθαι τῇ πόλει κατεπεμψά μην δέ σοι καὶ τὰς παρ’ ἡμῶν ἐντολὰς ἵνα καὶ τὴν ἡμετέ ραν συμβουλὴν ἐν τοῖς πρα χθησομένοις ἔχῃς ἔρρωσο
τόπος Κυριακοῦ βρακαρίου
Apparatus

i. The surface has deteriorated since recorded by Gaudin.

b. l. 2, κατακο, Reinach

l. 4, επωνει, Reinach

l. 5, εδει , ας τά, Reinach

l. 6,τησ, Reinach

l. 7,μελειας, Reinach

l. 11, μεν, Reinach

Translation

i. a: [ . . .] because of? [ . . .?Aphrodi]sians [ . . .] curat[?or . . . ] name [ . . .] decree [ . . .]

i. b: ...] with the care that befits you. At the same time taking thought too for the collection of the moneys that are owing to the city, I have also sent you instructions from us ?in order that you may have our advice in the matters to be managed. Farewell.

ii. Place of Kyriakos, trouser-maker.

Commentary

i. See Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome, 178. a does not add very much, but confirms the suggestion that a curator rei publicae was involved.

ii: See discussion at XI.5 and XI.9 .

Locations

Temple/Church, North Temenos Building: a found loose near the Tetrapylon; b: ‘aux premiers propylées, axe du temple’ (Gaudin), found during investigation of the east wall.. Unknown.. Museum (1988).

History of Recording

i. b and ii recorded by Gaudin (168, 167) and by the NYU expedition in 1970, and a further fragment, a, in 1988 (88.e).

Bibliography

i. a not previously published. i.b published by Reinach, no. 3 Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 50, whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.391,McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 50 . ii. Published by Reinach, no. 219, from Gaudin, whence Grégoire, IGC 262; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 189 and plate xli, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 680.

Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché); publications.

Photographs

Fragment i.a (1988)
Fragment i.a (1988)
Fragments i.b and ii (1981)
Fragment ii (1981)