<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for a citizen (late Republic)

Joyce M. Reynolds1982

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Originally published in Reynolds (1982).

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Description of Monument

A ?white marble block, broken above and at the right; no measurements.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

irregular, undecorated. Lines 1-2 smaller than 3ff.

Date

First century B.C. (lettering, content)

Edition τοῖς ἐν τοῖς ἀνανκαιοτάτοις καιροῖς διατηρήσαντα τῷ κοινῷ καὶ καὶ στεφανηφορήσαντα καὶ γυμνασιαρχήσαντα καὶ ἀγορανομήσαντα ἐν τῇ χαλεπωτάτῃ σειτοδείᾳ καὶ τὰς ἐν τοῖς πολέμοις ἀρχὰς ἀνυπευθύνους τελέσαντα καὶ πρεσ βεύσαντα πρὸς τοὺς ἡγουμένους εἰς Ῥώμην λοις καὶ ἐν παντοδαποῖς κινδύνοις καὶ πράγμασιν καὶ καταγω νισάμενον τοὺς ἐναντίους καὶ ἑξήκοντα αὐτῶν ἀποκτείναντα καὶ πλείστας ἐνγύας ὑπὲρ πολλῶν ἐκτείσαντα καὶ ἱερατεύσαντα τῆς Ἑκάτης εὐσε βῶς συνκεχωρῆσθαι δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ ἐνταφὴν ἐν τῷ γυμνασίῳ καὶ δίδοσθαι αὐτῷ ἀπὸ τῶν δημοσίᾳ θυομένων γέρα ἐξεῖναι δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ τοὺς στεφάνους φορεῖν οἷς ἐστεφάνωται ὅταν βούληται
Apparatus

ll.7, 9, 10. The restorations are by Paris and Holleaux, with a modification in 1. 10 where Reinach and Robert corrected ἐνταφ[ῆναι to ἐνταφ[ήν after the discovery of 529.

l.8:Supplement by L. Robert.

ll. 11 ff. are conjectured from 529.

Translation

...] having preserved the common interest in most stressful crises and [.. ? ..] having been stephanephoros and gymnasiarch [.. ? .. and] agoranomos in a most serious [famine .. ? .. and held] offices not subject to account during the wars [.. ? . . and] been ambassador to the authorities in Rome [.. ? ..] and in all kinds of dangers and ? affairs [.. ? ..] having struggled against the enemy and [killed] sixty [of them] and having given bail on many occasions on behalf of many people [.. ? .. and ? having served as priest of Hecate] with piety ; and that burial [in the gymnasium] be conceded to him [and the grant of] the gifts of honour from public sacrifices [.. .

Commentary

Of particular interest here are the stressful crises in which the honorand served, the famine during which he was appointed agoranomos, the times of war in which he held office without being subject to accounts and was responsible for the death of sixty of the enemy, the unspecified but various dangers that he asked, the embassy to Rome, the need for payments of bail and the very remarkable honours he received, among which, as Robert has pointed out, burial in the gymnasium shows that he ranked as a founder. See further the discussion by Robert, l.c. and Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome, 150-6.

Locations

Walls, North-east: hidden in bushes near the Stadium. unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

Publications

History of Recording

Recorded by Paris and Holleaux; not recorded subsequently.

Bibliography

Published by Paris and Holleaux, BCH 9 (1885), 74-6, no. 5, whence Liermann pp. 9-14, and notes at Reinach 79; discussed by L. Robert, Etudes Anatoliennes 312-4, with BE 1938.396, Ant.Class. 66, 422, whence SEG 30, 1980.1245, RDGE 169, Bowersock, AJPh 91 (1970), 226. Published, from all these, by Reynolds, A&R 28 whence SEG 32, 1982.1097; BE 1983:387; discussed by Bowersock, Gnomon 56, 1984, 52 (on l. 2). From all these McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 25 .

Photographs

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