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Between 180 and 189, probably early 180s (Prosopography)

Edition Ἀγαθῇ Τύχῃ Μᾶρκος Οὔλπιος Ἀππουλήϊος Εὐρυκλῆς ἀρχιερεὺς Ἀσίας ἀποδεδειγμένος ναῶν ΚΑΙ τῶν ἐν Σμύρνῃ τὸ β Ἀφροδισιέων ἄρχουσι βουλῇ δήμῳ χαίρειν Βουληθέντων ὑμῶν πρόνοιαν ποιήσασθαί με καὶ τῶν κατὰ τοὺς ἀγῶνας διά τε τὴν πρὸς τὸν μέγιστον Αὐτοκράτορα εὐσεβείαν Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον Κόμοδον Ἀντωνῖνον Σεβαστόν καὶ διὰ τὴν πρὸς τοὺς διαθεμένους μνήμην καὶ διὰ τὴν τῆς πόλεως δόξαν ἤδη καὶ τῶν ἀπὸ τῆς συνόδου πολ λάκις ἐντυχόντων μοι οὐδὲ τοῦτο τὸ μέρος κατέλιπον ἀδιάκριτον ἑπόμενος τῇ κατὰ τὴν λογιστείαν τάξει καὶ προθυμίᾳ μέχρι νῦν τῆς περὶ τοὺς ἀγῶνας καταστάσεως ἐνλειπούσης διὰ τὴν τῶν χρημάτων παρασκευὴν ὀφειλόντων συναυξηθῆναι κατά τε τὰς τῶν τελευτησάντων γνώμας καὶ κατὰ τὸ ἀξίωμα τοῦ πόρου ἀφ' οὗ χρὴ τοὺς ἀγῶνας ἐπιτελεῖσθαι ἀγὼν μὲν δὴ ὁ ἐκ τῶν Φλαβίου Λυσιμάχου διαθηκῶν προελήλυ θεν εἰς ἀρχείου πόρου μυριάδας δώδεκα ὡς δύνασθαι ἀπὸ τούτων παρὰ ἔτη τέσσαρα πληροῦσθαι τὸν μουσικὸν ἀγῶνα καθὰ τῷ διαθεμένῳ ἔδοξεν αἱ δὲ μετὰ τὰς δώδεκα μυριάδας οὖσαι ἐν ἐκδανεισμῷ καὶ ὁ προσγεγονὼς τούτοις τόκος μέχρι ἀρχῆς ἔτους ποιεῖ κεφαλείου δηναρίων μυριάδας τρεῖς δηνάρια χείλια ὀκτωκόσια τριάκοντα ἐννέα δύνασθε I οὖν ἀρχομένου τοῦ ἔτους τοῦτον τὸν ἀγῶνα ἐπιτελεῖν ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ ἐπὶ ἄθλοις ταλαντιαίοις καὶ ἀγωνίσμασιν κατὰ τὰ ἆθλα προθεσμία δὲ εἰς τὸν ἑξῆς χρόνον καὶ τὴν ἐπιοῦσαν τετραετηρίδα Σ ἔσται χρόνοςὁ ἀπὸ Βαρβιλλήων τῶν Ἐφέσῳ ἀγομένων πρὸς Κοινὰ Ἀσίας ἔρρωσθε

Apparatus

From A&R

Translation

With good fortune. Marcus Ulpius Appuleius Eurycles, designated high-priest of Asia, of the temples of Smyrna, for the second time, greets the Magistrates, Council and People of the Aphrodisians.

Since it was your wish that I make provision also for the (funds) relating to the contests,(5) because of your piety towards the very great emperor Marcus Aurelius Commodus Antoninus Augustus, and because of the memory of those who bequeathed them, and because of the reputation of the city, and since those from the Synod had also already approached me several times, I have not failed to examine this sector as well, applying the same order and zeal as (I observed) in my curatorship. So far (10) the competitions have not taken place because the provision of money needed to be increased in accordance both with the directions of the deceased (founders) and with the reckoning of the funds from which the contests are due to be carried out. However, the contest from the will of Flavius Lysimachus has reached a total endowment of 120,000 denarii, so that it is possible from this sum (15) for the musical contest to be held every four years, as the testator wished. The funds over and above the 120,000 denarii, which are on loan, and the interest accruing to this up to the beginning of the year, makes a total of 31,839 denarii. You can therefore, when the year begins, carry out this (20) contest, with good fortune, for prizes amounting to a talent, and with competitions according to the prizes (available). The appointed time for the following period and the next four-yearly celebration will be the time between the Barbilleia at Ephesus and [?the provincial contest] of Asia. [? Farewell]

Commentary

See bibliography.

Locations

Walls, South-east: in urbis muro ad austrum. Unknown Findspot (1705)

Text Constituted From

Sherard notebook; publications

History of Recording

Copied by Picenini in 1705 (BM Add. 10102, 23-23v) whence Sherard (BM Add. 10101 35-6); by Wood in 1750 (14, f45); not reported subsequently

Bibliography

Published from Sherard by Boeckh, 2741, whence Liermann, 20, 509, B. Laum, Stiftungen in der griechischen und römischen Antike (Leipzig/Berlin, 1914), 103 (ll. 13-23), Pickard-Cambridge, 2, 320, no.16a. Republished from Sherard's notebook by J. M. Reynolds, A&R 57, whence SEG 32, 1982.1097; BE 1983.392. PHI 69Roueché, 50.

Photographs

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Representations

Wood notebook 14, page 45