<rs type="textType">Letter</rs> of Stephanos to Plarasa/Aphrodisias

Joyce M. Reynolds1982

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Originally published in Reynolds (1982).

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Description of Monument

Archive wall: column 3, lowest course.

Description of Text

Inscribed area 1.75 x 0.27

Letters

second to third cent. A.D. av. 0.018; ligatured ΝΜ, ΜΕ in 1. 2, ΜΗΝ, ΤΗ in 1. 4, ΗΝ in 1. 6, ΜΕ in 1. 8, ΗΝ, ΝΗΝ, ΜΕ in 1. 10 ; apices in Il. 2, 5 ; the first Ω in 1. 2 cut over Ο; star-shaped stop in 1. 8.

Date

Inscription: second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, context). Document: 39/38 B.C. (content, prosopography.

Edition Στέφανος Πλαρασέων Ἀφροδεισιέων ἄρχουσι βουλῇ δήμῳ χαίρειν προσελθόντων μοι ὑμετέρων πρεσβευτῶν ἐν Λαοδικήᾳ καὶ τὰ παρ’ ὑμῶν ψηφίσματα ἀναδόντων ἐγὼ πᾶσαν σπουδὴν εἰσηνενκάμην καὶ ἐπιμελέστατα ἐξζητήσας παρά τε τῶν ἔ ξωθεν καὶ τῶν ἐμῶν ἀπέδωκα αὐτοῖς δούλους ὅσους ποτὲ ἐπέγνωσαν καὶ ἐλευθέρους ὅσους ἔλεγον ἐπὶ Λαβιήνου πάντας ὑμεῖν ἐνδεδεῖχθαι καὶ τούτους ὑμεῖν παρέδωκα ὅπως τὰς καθηκούσας ὑμεῖν τιμωρίας ὑποσχῶσιν σὺν τούτοις καὶ στέφανον χρυσοῦν ἀποδέδωκα τοῖς ὑμετέροις πρεσβευ ταῖς καὶ ἄρχουσιν ὃς ἦν ἀπενηνεγμένος ὑπὸ Πύθου τοῦ Οὐμανίου
Apparatus

l.6. ΠΑΝΤΑ lapis.

Translation

Stephanos to the Magistrates, Council and People of the Plarasans and Aphrodisians, greetings.

When your envoys came to me in Laodicea and handed me the decrees from you, I made every effort and, after a most careful search, restored to them all the slaves they recognized from the hands of others and from any own people; and all the free men too against whom, they said, information had been laid in the time of Labienus, I handed over to you in order that they may undergo the punishments you think appropriate. Together with these I have restored to your ambassadors and magistrates a golden crown which had been carried off by Pythes son of Oumanios.

Commentary

See Aphrodisias and Rome, 99-101.

Locations

Theatre: north parodos wall Theatre: north parodos wall Findspot

Text Constituted From

transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1967

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds, A&R 11, whence SEG 32, 1982.1097; BE 1983.372; AnnEpig 1984, 865; SEG 33, 1983.854, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 64 .

Photographs

View, below 8.34, 8.31 (1977)
View, below 8.34, 8.31 (1977)
Archive Wall view (1994)