<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for an anonymous benefactor, ?Solon son of Demetrios

Joyce M. Reynolds1982

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Originally published in Reynolds (1982).

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Description of Monument

White marble block, chipped along all edges and also on the surface ; there are dowel-holes for an attachment above.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face. This is the conclusion of a text which must have been laid out in several columns. The supplements are hardly in doubt. In 1. 5 the long vacat at the end is likely to have been balanced by another at the beginning and that seems to be confirmed by the little that survives of the surface there.

Letters

perhaps late Republican/Augustan: 0.05.

Date

late Republican/Augustan (lettering)

Edition γενόμενος δὲ καὶ ἀστυνόμος καὶ νεωποιὸς καὶ στρατηγὸς ἐπὶ χώρας ω στρατηγήσας δὲ πλεονάκις τῆς πόλεως πρεσβεύσας δὲ πλείστας καὶ μεγίστας πρεσβήας ἐπιτυχῶς ὑπὲρ τῆς πατρίδος ω ἀγωνισάμενος δὲ καὶ περὶ τῆς ἐλευθερίας καὶ τῶν νόμων καὶ τῆς ἀσυλίας καὶ τῶν δεδομένων φιλανθρώπων ω καὶ ἐνὶ πᾶσιν τούτοις τοῖς γενομένοις ὑπ' αὐτοῦ καὶ ταῖς ἀρχαῖς καὶ λιτουργίαισ̣ τιμηθείς
Translation

having also been astynomos and neopoios and strategos in charge of the city-territory, and many times strategos in charge of the city, and having successfully carried out a number of very important embassies on behalf of his country; and having been active for (her) freedom and laws and the right of asylum and the privileges granted to her; and been honoured in all these things which he brought about and in his magistracies and liturgies.

Commentary

The letter-forms of the inscription are comparatively early and seem to show resemblances to those of inscriptions honouring Zoilos in the theatre (late thirties - early Augustan); so that, although the formulae relating to embassies can be more easily paralleled in the first century A.D., there may be a case for associating the subject with the first grant of privileges to Aphrodisias in 39 B.C. and, indeed, for proposing tentatively his identification as Solon, son of Demetrios (docs. 8.25, ll. 14 f.; 8.27, 1. 22; 8.31, ll. 4--5). See further Aphrodisias and Rome, 166-167.

Locations

South agora: near the east entrance to the agora in an area containing much re-used material. unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1978 (inventory number 78.2

Bibliography

Published byReynolds, A&R 41 whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.390, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 326 .

Photographs

Face (1980)
Face (1980)