<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for the proconsul, Sulpicius Priscus

Joyce M. Reynolds1982

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Originally published in Reynolds (1982).

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Description of Monument

A white marble statue base; no measurements..

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.035; ligatured ΗΜ in l.9; deliberate erasure in l.11.

Date

A.D. 222/235 (reign)

Edition ὁ δῆμος τῆς λαμπροτάτης Ἀφροδεισιέων πόλεως Σουλπίκιον Πρεῖσκον τὸν διασημότατον ἀνθύπατον κατὰ τὰς τοῦ μεγίστου καὶ θειοτάτου κυρίου ἡμῶν αὐτοκράτορος Σεουήρου Ἀλεξάνδρου ἐντολάς
Translation

The People of the most splendid city of the Aphrodisians (set up a statue of) Sulpicius Priscus, perfectissimus vir, proconsul, according to [?the instructions] of our greatest and most revered lord Imperator Severus [Alexander].

Commentary

See Reynolds, loc. cit.

Locations

Unknown Walls, North, found with 12.34 Findspot (1904)

Text Constituted From

Transcription from squeeze (Reynolds); publications.

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (161); not reported subsequently.

Bibliography

Published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 84, no. 4, whence Abbott & Johnson, no. 138, Veyne, Mél. Piganiol 1395-1396, BE 1967.554; by Reynolds, from Gaudin, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 47, whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.391, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 327 .