<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for Flavius Carminius Klaudianos

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital

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Description of Monument

Two adjoining fragments of a rectangular white marble statue base (0.90 × 0.31 × 0.45) moulded on the front face (0.85 × 0.31). All edges and some parts of the face are chipped.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face (0.83 wide), with some overlap onto the mouldings in lines 1 and 6.

Letters

Late second to early third century; l.1, 0.022, l.2, 0.02, l.3, 0.018, l.4, 0.02, l.5, 0.024, l.6, 0.022: dot for stop; ligatures: ΜΗ, l.1. Diairetic dots around Α of Ἀθηναγόραν (l. 2), final Υ (l. 2), Ε of ἀρχιερείας (l. 3), Α of ΑΝΑ (l. 4), Ε of ἐποήσατο, l.5, Α of βία, second Α of Ἀπφία, Υ of ὑπέσχετο, l.6.

Date

Third century A.D. (lettering, prosopography)

Edition ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησαν Φλάβιον Καρμίνιον Ἀθηναγόραν συνκλητικὸν ὑὸν sic Φλαβίας Ἀπφίας Ἀσίας ἀρχιερείας καὶ Καρμινίου Κλαυδιανοῦ νεωτέρου τὴν δὲ ἀνά στασιν τοῦ ἀνδριάντος ἐποήσατο Φλαβία Ἀπφία καθὼς ὑπέσχετο
Translation

The Council and the People honoured Flavius Carminius Athenagoras, Roman senator, son of Flavia Apphia, high priestess of Asia, and of Carminius Klaudianos the younger. Flavia Apphia was responsible for the erection of the statue, as she promised.

Commentary

The honorand, who haad become a Roman senator, was son of M. Ulpius Carminius Klaudianos - see 12.646, 12.1111 ( = CIG 2782) of the leading family of the neighbouring city of attouda, who spent much time and money in Aphrodisias (12.1111) and married the Flavia Apphia named here, daughter of an Aphrodisian family, her father being an imperial procurator who had married into a family of Roman senators (12.646, 1902). His own son, T. Flavius Athenagoras, also became a Roman senator (12.1111).

This text might lead one to suspect that Flavia Apphia wished to celebrate her son's rank as equivalent to that of her nephew. It is also of interest that she is mentioned here before her husband - no doubt in principle because she was paying for the monument - and that while she was very probably high priestess of Asia because she was his wife when he was high priest, his tenure of that office is not mentioned.

Locations

Theatre Baths , S.E. Piazza, Trench 1 Unknown Museum (1976)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1976 (76.22)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1976)