Description of Monument

Archive wall, column five, second course. The block to the left is substantially intact although damaged at the upper right hand corner; the block to the right is broken away and lost except for small fragments.

Description of Text

Immediately below 8.35. Surviving inscribed area 1.31 x 0.435; lines 1, 5, 9 outspaced

Letters

second to third centuries A.D.; ave,. 0.02; apices, ll. 2, 6, 12; diaeresis ll 2, 5 (erroneously), 6.

Date

Inscription: second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, context). Document: A.D. 198 (titulature).

Edition αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ θεοῦ Μάρκου Ἀντωνείνου Εὐσεβοῦς Γερμανικοῦ Σαρματικοῦ υἱός θεοῦ Κομμόδου ἀδελφός θεοῦ Ἀντωνείνου Εὐσεβοῦς υἱωνός θεοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ ἔκγονος θεοῦ Τραϊανοῦ Παρθικοῦ καὶ θεοῦ Νέρουα ἀπόγονος Λούκιος Σεπτίμιος Σεουῆρος Εὐσεβὴς Περτίναξ Σεβαστός Ἀραβικός Ἀδιαβηνικός Παρθικὸς μέγιστος ἀρχιε ρεὺς μέγιστος δημαρχικῆς ἐξουσίας τὸ Ϛ αὐτοκράτωρ τὸ ια ὕπατος τὸ β πατὴρ πατρίδος ἀνθύπατος καὶ αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Λουκίου Σεπτιμίου ΣεουήρουΕὐσεβοῦςΠερτίνακοςΣεβαστοῦἈραβικοῦ Ἀδιαβηνικοῦ Παρθι κοῦ μεγίστου υἱός θεοῦ Μάρκου Ἀντωνείνου Εὐσεβοῦς Γερμανικοῦ Σαρματικοῦ υἱωνός θεοῦ Ἀντωνείνου Εὐσε βοῦς ἔγγονος θεοῦ Ἁδριανοῦ καὶ θεοῦ Τραϊανοῦ Παρθικοῦ καὶ θεοῦ Νέρουα ἀπόγονος Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἀντωνεῖνος Σεβαστός δημαρχικῆς ἐξουσίας ἀνθύπατος Ἀφροδεισιέων τοῖς ἄρχουσι καὶ τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ χαίρειν πάνυ τῶν εἰκότων ἦν θεὸν ὑμᾶς προσκυνοῦντας παρ’ ἧς ἡ εὐγένεια ι ἡσθῆναι ἐπὶ τοῖς περὶ τῶν βαρβάρων κατωρθωμένοις καὶ ἑορτὴν ἐπ’ αὐτοῖς κοινὴν σὺν πάσῃ τῇ οἰκουμένῃ ἄγοντας ἐπιστεῖλαι διὰ ψηφίσματος ὡς εἰδείημεν ὑμῶν τὴν εὐσέβειαν τὰ ὑπάρχοντα δίκαια τῇ πόλει ὑμῶν μεμενηκότα μέχρι τῆς ἡμετέρας ἀρχῆς ἀσάλευτα καὶ ἡμεῖς φυλάττομεν κλ εὐτυχεῖτε

Translation

Imperator Caesar L. Septimius Severus, Pius, Pertinax, Augustus, [Arabicus, Adiabenicus, Parthicus] maximus, [son] of divus Marcus Antoninus Pius, Ge[rmanicus, Sarmaticus], brother [of divus] Com[mo]dus, grandson of [divus] Antoninus Pius, great grandson of divus Hadrianus, [descendant] of [divus Traianus Parthicus and divus Ner]va, Pontifex Maximus, holding tribunician power for the sixth time, acclaimed victor for the [eleventh time, consul for the second time,] father of his country, proconsul, [and] lmperator Caesar M. Aureli[us Antoninus] Augustus, son of L. Septimius Severus, Pius, [Per]tina[x, Augustu]s, A[rabic]us, Adiab[enicu]s, [Parthi]cus maximus, grandson of M. Antoninus Pius, German[ic]us, Sarm[aticus], great grandson of divus Antoninus Pius, descendant of] divus Hadrianus, of divus Trajanus Parthicus and of divus Nerva, holding the tribunician power, proconsul, to the Magistrates, [Council and People] of the Aphrodisians, greetings.

It was entirely likely that you who worship a goddess from whom the nobility [.. ? .. rejoiced in our] successes [over] the barbarians and [conducted] a festival to celebrate them in common [?with your neighbours and sent to us though your] decree so that we should know your piety. The existing rights [of your city which have endured up to] our reign we too preserve unchanged [.. ? .. ?Farewell].

Commentary

See , 124-127.

Locations

Theatre: north parodos wall; fragments fallen in front of wall, or re-used in the Byzantine defence wall. Theatre: north parodos wall Findspot; fragments in Museum

Text Constituted From

transcription (Reynolds)This edition: Reynolds (2007)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1967, and fragments found over subsequent years (67.449, 69.315, 69.458, 69.459, 69.460, 69.463, 76.62, 76.107, 76.196.1-8)

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds, A&R 17 whence Mitchell, 34, 1984, 296 (l. 10); SEG 32, 1982.1097, BE 1983.378, AnnEpig 1984, 871, McCabe 54 . Discussed by C.P. Jones in V. Fromentin and S. Gottelend edd., (Bordeaux 2001) 183, whence SEG 2001.1492.

Photographs

Left end in situ, view below 8.35, above 8.37, 8.99, 8.103 (1977)

Left end in situ, view below 8.35 (1977)

Left end in situ, view below 8.35, above 8.37 (1977)

Left end in situ, view above 8.37, 8.99, 8.103 (1977)

Fragment, lines 1-4 (1976)

Lines 1-12, with end of 8.35 (1977)

Archive Wall view (1994)