<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for the father of Marcus Aurelius Polychronios, who established a <rs type="textType">foundation</rs>

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Large statue base, broken above

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Description of Letters

No description.

Date

Probably third century A.D. (nomenclature).

Edition ισλ δαπανήσαντα ἀπὸ δηνάρια μυρίων εἰρηναρχήσαντα παραφυλάξαντα καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἀρχὰς καὶ λιτουργίας καὶ συνεισδόσεις τῇ πατρίδι καὶ παρὰ δύναμιν πληρώσαντα ὑπέρ τε αὑτοῦ καὶ Μάρκου ΑὐρηλίουΠολυχρονίου τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀναθὲντα δὲ καὶ τῇ κρατίστῃ βουλῇ εἰς αἰωνίους κλήρους δηνάρια αχο γεινομένου τοῦ κλήρου πρὸς τῷ ἀνδριάντι αὐτοῦ ἑκάστου ἔτους μηνὶ ι ὀνομάτων σ λαμβανοντος ἑκάστου τῶν λαχόντων δηνάριαϚ κατθὰ καὶ διὰ τῆς ἀναθέσεως δηλοῦται τειμ
Translation

having spent a sum amounting to 10 000 denarii; he was eirenarch and paraphylax and carried out all the other magistracies and liturgies and the contributions to his country even beyond his means; and on his own behalf and that of his son, Marcus Aurelius Polychronios he dedicated to the most excellent Council for lotteries to be held permanently 1670 denarii, the lottery taking place beside his statue every year in the 10th month, there being 200 names, each of those winning receiving 6 denarii, as was also made clear in the dedication

Commentary

The honorand is not certainly identifiable and while his son was a Roman citizen it is not certain that he was. We are not well informed of the civic cursus honorum owing to the tendency to use generalising formulae as in l. 6, but should note the policing functions indicated in ll. 3-5, one no doubt in the city and the second in its territory. Also interesting is the importance of financial contributions to the city in a man's career. In the later second century and the third, gifts to finance distributions of cash by lotteries (as in ll. 14ff) figure alongside, perhaps more frequently than, gifts for public building and the like—the small size of lots to be won (l. 27) are worthy of note.

Locations

City, North-east: re-used in a ruined house near the Stadium—apparently near 12.204 (=MAMA 448) and 12.215 (=MAMA 521), which are built into the NE city wall. In the same wall as 11.18 (= P&H 7) Unknown Findspot (1885).

History of Recording

Recorded by Paris and Holleaux; not reported subsequently.

Bibliography

Published by Paris and Holleaux, BCH 9 (1885), 76-7, no. 6, whence Ziebarth no. 61, Laum no. 12, Robert in Holleaux, Et. d'épig. VI 7, no. 6 (l. 2), BE 1969.542, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 27

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Photographs

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