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A tall narrow
Inscribed on the face.
Second to third centuries A.D.;
Inscription:
Sherard seems to have had difficulty in reading at several points down the edges, which were presumably chipped, especially at the right. He may also have been confused in places by ligatures (which he does not always record, as the surviving fragment shows). He did not record apices.
Of his corrections to his transcription, those written with a thick nib may have been made in the field, those with a thin nib were more probably added in the study. In the apparatus the latter are shown as S.2
1. 4, T, bar above the figure, S.
1. 5, ΤΗΔ . . S., C. τῆ[ς], other edd.
1. 15, ΗΜΕΤΕΡΟ, S.,< ὑ>μέτερος, edd.
1. 18, ΤΗΚΩΣ, S., τ<ι>κως, edd.
λλ. 21-2, Γ om. E. who shows E as the first letter of 1. 22, γεγονόσιν, edd.
l. 23, . ΜΤΑΣΙΝ, S., [ΜΗ]ΜΑΣΙΝ, edd.
ll. 22-3, Η om. S. who shows Μ as the first letter of l. 23, ἡμᾶς, edd.
ll. 24-5, Σ om. S. who shows . . ΕΝ at the beginning of 1. 25, παρεκάλεσ//εν, edd.
ll. 32-3, ΑΝΤΙ//ΓΡΑΦΑ, S. (cf. lapis) corr. from ΑΝΤΙΓΡΑ//ΦΑ, ἀντίγρα/φα, edd.; small circular stop, S. (cf. lapis).
l. 34, Λ om. S., μᾶλ, edd.
l. 42, ΗΜΟΝ, S., ΗΜΩΝ, S.2, ἡμῶν, cdd., ΤΕΙ, S. who shows the same letters also at the beginning of l. 43, τει/μῆς, edd.
ll. 43--4, Ν om. S. who shows Η as the first letter of l. 44, συ//νήδομαι, edd.
l. 44, ΤΟ, S., ΤΩ, S.2, τῷ, edd.
l. 46, ΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦ., S., ΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΑ, S.2, ἀντίγραφα, edd.
l. 49, ΥΠΟΓΕΓΡΑΜΕΝΑ, S., ὑπογεγραμμένα, edd.
l. 50, ΒΟΥΛΟ ΜΑΙ , S., ΒΟΥΛΟ ΜΑΙ ΚΑΙ, S.2; βούλομαι, edd.
l. 52, unfilled space for two letters, S., ignored by edd., ΕΝΤΑΞΑ, S., ΕΝΤΑΞΑΙ, S.2; ἐντάξαι, edd.
l.54 aligned with rest, S., C., displaced to right, other edd., concluding leaf S., ignored, edd.
[? lmperator Caesar, son of divus lulius, designated consul] for the second and [the third] time, (one) of the Tresviri Reipublicae Constituendae, to the Magistrates, Council and People of the Plarasans and Aphrodisians, greetings.
If you are well it would be good ; I too am in good health, together with the army. Solon, son of Demetrios, your ambassador, who has taken the greatest care over the business of your city, has not only been satisfied by the administrative arrangements that have been made but has also urged us to send you from the public records these copies of the edict, the senatus consultum, the treaty and the law that relate to you. For this I praised him, approved him the more, held him as one of my acquaintances and gave him the appropriate privileges, thinking him deserving of honour from us; and I congratulate you on the possession of such a citizen. The copies of the privileges that relate to you are these that are subjoined; I wish you to register them among your public records.
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Recorded by Sherard in 1705 (10101, 38-39), with further corrections (S.2); fragment recorded by the NYU expedition in 1972 (
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