<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for Publius Aelius Hilarianos from his mother

Joyce M. Reynolds, 2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Shaft of a white marble statue base; surviving fragment (0.30 × 0.24 × 0.13).

Description of Text

Inscribed within a moulded front panel.

Description of Letters

0.03; ligatures: ΗΤΗΡ l. 19; ΜΗ l. 20; ΝΚ ll. 13, 20; ΜΜΗ l. 20; circle for stop, ll. 12, 14, 18, 19.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, content).

Edition Πόπλιον Αἴλιον Ἱλαριανὸν ἱππικὸνΠοπλίου Αἰλίου Ἀπολλωνιανοῦ πρειμιπειλαρίου υἱὸν Ποπλίου ΑἰλίουἹλαριανοῦ ὑπατικοῦἔκγονον πολλῶν συνκλητικῶν καὶ ὑπατικῶν συν γενῆΤιβερία Ἰουλία Ἀντωνία Λητωὶς μητὴρ καὶμάμμη συνκλητικῶν τὸν γλυκύτατον υἱόν
Apparatus

The letters seen by us have been highlighted.

Line 7: Wood added the E and writes in the margin: The letter interlined is E, which I had forgot in the first writing over; ye two letters wanting look'd like ΛΗ.

ll. 12, 14, 18, 19: stops shown in Bailie's copy only. Further stops shown in Deering's copy, appear to be annotations ?by Leake.

ll. 18/19: ΛΙΤΟΙΣ Sherard; Λητωίς Boeckh, confirmed by later copyists; ΛΗΤΟΙΣ Le Bas.

l. 23, leaf only in Sherard's copy.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); Deering; Wood; Sherard papers; publications.

Translation

Publius Aelius Hilarianos, eques romanus, son of Publius Aelius Apollonianos primipilarius, grandson of Publius Aelius Hilarianos consular, relative of many senatorials and consulars.

Tiberia Julia Antonia Letois, mother and grandmother of senatorials, (set up the statue of) her very dear son.

Commentary

This man was honoured, in identical terms, by his mother (here) and by his father (12.17). For his career see B. Dobson, Recherches Structures Sociales 110 and n. 2, and Eck, loc. cit.

Locations

Walls, South-east: reused in or near the south east stretch of the walls (Sherard, Wood, Bailie); 'in the west wall' Fellows (presumably in error). Fragment found during excavation of the Bouleuterion/Odeon. Unknown. Complete block last seen at findspot; surviving fragment in the Museum (1977).

History of Recording

The complete block was copied in 1705 by Picenini (10102 28v and, from Tisser, 55), whence Sherard (10101.44); by Wood in 1750 (vol. 14 f. 45v); by Deering (5v, no.25); by Fellows; by Loew in 1841; by Bailie; by Le Bas in 1843 and by Waddington in 1851. A fragment of the upper part of the stone, with part of the first three lines, was recorded by the NYU expedition (71.45).

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh from Sherard and Picenini, CIG 2793; by Fellows, no. 40, whence CIG p. 1112; Bailie, no. 63; a correction published by Franz from Loew, a.5; published by Waddington, from Le Bas, no 595, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 230; discussed by W. Eck, ZPE 42 (1981), 235-6, whence SEG 1981.902, BE 1981.517.

Photographs

Upper fragment (1977)
Upper fragment (1977)

Representations

Wood notebook 14, page 45v
Deering notebook 5v
Deering notebook 6