<rs type="textType">Decree</rs> of Plarasa/Aphrodisias

Joyce M. Reynolds1982

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Originally published in Reynolds (1982).

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Description of Monument

Two white marble blocks (together 3.06 × 0.59 × 0.43) from a Doric entablature with architrave and frieze in one piece; block a. is chipped at both sides, block b. is broken in two.

Description of Text

Inscribed a on one metope and b on the frieze. The decree is laid out in two columns.

Letters

av. 0.02; ligatured ΤΗ in a. l. 1, ΜΕ in a. l. 6, ΤΗ, ΜΕ, ΗΝ, ΝΕ, ΗΜ in b. l. 5, ΜΕ, ΝΕ in b. l. 6.

Date

Document: 88 B.C. (prosopography, events). Inscription: Second century A.D. (lettering)

Edition
ἔδοξεν τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ καὶ Περείτου του τοῦ Ἀντιόχου γραμματέως δήμου καὶ Ἀττάλου τοῦ Μενάνδρου τοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας στρατηγοῦ
ἐπεὶ Κόϊντος Ὄππιος Κοΐντου υἱὸς στρατηγὸς ἀνθύπατος Ῥωμαίων πέπομφεν πολιορκεῖσθαι Λαοδίκηάν τε καὶ ἑαυτὸν ὁ δε δῆμος ἔκρεινεν βοηθεῖν κατὰ πλῆθος συνεκπορεύεσθαι δὲ καὶ τοὺς παροίκους καὶ τοὺς δούλους, εἵλατο δὲ ἐπὶ τῆς ἐκκλησίας καὶ ἄνδρα τὸν ἡγησάμενον ἀνανκαῖον δέ ἐστιν ἐξαποστεῖλαι καὶ πρεσβευτὰς τοὺς ἐνφανιοῦντας τῷ ἀνθυπάτῳ περί τε τῆς αἱρέσεως ἧς ἔχει ὁ δῆμος ἡμῶν πρὸς Ῥωμαίους ὄντας σωτῆρας καὶ εὐεργέτας καὶ ἐάν τι ὁ στρατηγὸς ἐπιτάσσῃ καὶ ἕτερον τῇ πόλει διαταξαμένους ὥστε διασαφηθῆναι καὶ γενέσθαι δεδόχθαι τῷ δήμῳ ἑλέσθαι πρεσβευτὰς ἄνδρας τῶν τειμωμένων καὶ πίστιν ἐχόντων καὶ εὐνοϊκῶς πρὸς Ῥωμαίους διακειμένων οἵτινες ἀφικόμενοι πρὸς Κόϊντον Ὄππιον τὸν ἀνθύπατον ἐνφανιοῦσιν αὐτῷ ἣν ἔχει ὁ δῆμος ἡμῶν αἵρεσιν πρὸς αὐτὸν καὶ πρὸς πάντας Ῥωμαίους ὑποδείξωσι δὲ ὅτι οὐ μόνον κατὰ πλῆθος συμμαχεῖν ἐκρείναμεν ἀλλὰ καὶ ἄνδρα τὸν ἐπὶ τῆς συμμαχίας εἱλάμεθα
Ἀρτεμίδωρον τὸν στεφανηφόρον ἄνδρα τῶν τειμωμένων καὶ πίστιν ἐχόντων καὶ τῇ ἐν τοῖς ὅπλοις ἀρετῇ διαφέροντα ἐνφανιοῦσιν δὲ αὐτῷ ὅτι πᾶς ὁ δῆμος ἡμῶν σὺν γυναιξὶ καὶ τέκνοις καὶ τῷ παντὶ βίῳ ετυμοσ παραβάλλεσθαι ὑπὲρΚοΐντου καὶ τῶν Ῥωμαίων πραγμάτων καὶ ὅτι χωρὶς τῆςῬωμαίων ἡγεμονίας οὐδὲ ζῆν προαιρούμεθα
Apparatus

b. l. 4, ΣΤΡΗΦΟΣ, lapis; clearly a slip.

b. l. 12, ΕΤΥΜΟΣ is presumably for ἑτοῖμος.

Translation

Translation: a. Decision of the Council and the People (? proposed by the magistrates), by Pereitas son of (?, grandson) of Antiochos, Secretary to the People, and by Attalos, son of Menandros, General in charge of the territory.

b. Since Quintus Oppius, son of Quintus, Roman praetor with proconsular power, has sent (a message) that Laodikeia and he himself are under siege and since the People decided that they should help him in force and that the paroikoi and slaves should march out with them and has also chosen in the assembly a man for their leader and it is necessary to despatch ambassadors too, to inform the proconsul of the policy of our People towards the Romans who are saviours and benefactors, and, if the governor gives any other instruction for the city, to arrange that it is passed on clearly and carried out, the People decided to elect as ambassadors men from among those who are honoured and hold trust and are well disposed towards the Romans, who shall go to Quintus Oppius the proconsul and inform him of the policy of our People towards him and all Romans and shall report that we have not only decided to fight alongside him in force but have also chosen a man to command this auxiliary unit, Artemidoros the stcphanephoros, a man of those who are honoured and hold trust, and one distinguished in military excellence, and they shall inform him that our whole People, together with our wives and children and all our property (7), is ready (?) to risk all for Quintus and the Roman cause; and that without the rule of the Romans we do not choose even to live.

Commentary

See Reynolds, loc. cit.

Locations

Theatre, stage front Theatre: the pilasterforming the northern end of the Doric entablature of the stage building. Theatre, stage front

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU excavation (67.749, 68.399, 70.406).

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 2, whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.363, AnnEpig 1984.858, SEG 1984.1043, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 28.

Photographs

a, and b.i, left end (1970)
b.i, right end (1970)
b.ii (1970)
b.ii (1970)