Description of Monument

White marble altar (0.55 × 1.09 × 0.44) moulded at top and bottom of the front face, both mouldings badly damaged, the face chipped all along the right edge and approximately in the centre of the left.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face; the last line cut on the lower moulding.

Letters

av. 0.025, imperfectly aligned.

Date

Probably second century B.C. (lettering).

Edition Διῒ Φιλίωι καὶ Ὁμονοίαι καὶΘεᾶι Ῥώμηι οἱ δῆμοι οἵ τε Πλαρασέων καὶ Ἀφροδισιέων καὶ ὁ Κιβυρατῶν καὶ ὁ Ταβηνῶν ποιησάμενοι καὶ ὅρκιακαθ' ἱερῶν νεοκαύτων καὶ σφάγια ὑπὲρ τῆς πρὸς ἀλλήλους φύσει συμμαχίας καὶ ὁμονοίαςαἰωνίου καὶ ἀδελφότητος καὶ ὑπὲρ τοῦ μηθὲν ὑπεναντίονπράξειν μήτε Ῥωμαίοις μήτεαὑτοῖς καὶ μήτε τινὰ γράψαι μήτε εἰπεῖν, μήτε εἰσαγγεῖλαι μήτε ἀναγράψαι κατὰ τῶν ἐν τοῖςὅρκοις ἀναγεγραμμένων τὸν δὲ πράξαντά τι κατὰ τούτων ἐξώλη εἶναι, καὶ αὐτόν, καὶ γενεάν, καὶ ἔνοχον εἶναι θανάτῳ, καὶ εὐθύνεσθαι ὑπὸ τοῦ βουλομένουκαὶ κατὰ τὰς κοινὰς συνθήκαςἀγαθὰ δὲ ἀλλήλοις ὅσα ἂν δυνατὸν ἦι συνπράξειν ἀπροφασίστως καὶ τὰ συνωμολογημένα τηρήσειν

Apparatus

ll. 6-7, σφάγια seems inevitable here; the accusative case is imposed by the repetition of καὶ in this sentence

l. 7, ΛΛ appear to have been cut twice, the first attempt being partially erased

ll. 7-8, φύσει suggested by Robert

l. 10, Υ is partially damaged and the subsequent Π written as if the cutter saw ΤΓ, but ὑπεναντίον in such contexts is so common that there can be no doubt that it was intended

l. 12, for Γ the cutter originally wrote Τ

Translation

To Zeus Philios, Concord, and Dea Roma; dedicated by the Peoples of Plarasa/Aphrodisias, of Kibyra, and of Tabae who have taken oaths over newly-burnt offerings and made blood-offerings for their natural alliance, eternal concord, and brotherhood with each other; and in order that they shall take no action in opposition either to the Romans or to each other and that no one shall draft, advocate, introduce a proposal, or record anything contrary to what has been written in the sworn agreements; and that anyone who does anything in contravention of these shall be utterly destroyed, himself and his family, liable to a capital penalty and open to prosecution by anyone who wishes and in accordance with their common agreements, and that they shall jointly promote each other's advantage in every possible way, unreservedly; and that they shall observe what has been agreed.

Commentary

See bibliography.

Locations

Unknown Re-used in the north parodos of the Theatre Museum

Text Constituted From

Publications; Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1969 (69.327)

Bibliography

Mentioned by R. Mellor, (1975), 49 f. (dedication in l. 2), whence J. and L. Robert, Bull. Ep. 1977.76 (commenting on the geographical relationship of the three cities).Mentioned by Reynolds 206, 1980, p. 70; and published as Reynolds, , doc. 1, whence McCabe 179.

Photographs

Face (1969)