<rs type="textType">Letter</rs> from Iulius Celer, quaestor, and petition to the emperor Trajan.

Joyce M. Reynolds1982

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Originally published in Reynolds (1982).

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Description of Monument

Moulded pilaster capital, badly damaged and partly broken away (0.70 x 0.57 x 0.27).

Description of Text

Inscribed on three faces; the third is illegible.

Letters

Second century A.D.; 0.015. diairesis in ii, l.3. The cutting is only of moderate quality.

Date

102-116 (imperial titles)

Edition Ἰούλιος Κέλερ ταμίας καὶ ἀντιστράτηγος Ἀφροδισιέων ἄρχουσι χαίρειν Αὐτοκράτορι Νέρβᾳ Τραϊανῷ Σεβαστῷ Γερμανικῷ Δακικῷ ἔντευξις Γαΐου Ἰου λίου Γαΐου υἱοῦ Φαβία

Translation

i: Iulius Celer, quaestor pro praetore, to the magistrates of Aphrodisias, greetings.

ii. For Imperator Nerva Traianus [Augustus] Germanicus, Dacicus, petition of [Caius Iul]ius C.f., Fabia tribu

Commentary

See Aphrodisias and Rome, 180. The documents may be related, but they may come from an archive of inscribed documents where they were juxtaposed.

Locations

Walls, North: found loose in excavation just inside the northern stretch. unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1969 (69.364)

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds, A&R 52 whence BE 1983:391; AnnEpig 1984.881, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 66 and 139.

Photographs

i Face (1969)

ii Face (1969)