<rs type="textType">Decree</rs> of <rs type="textType" reg="honours">honours</rs> for Dionysios son of Papylos

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble block (1.29 × 0.68 × 0.28) apparently complete on all sides.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face; presumably continued on a lower block.

Letters

0.02-0.03; l. 1, first word, 0.07.

Date

First to second centuries A.D. (lettering, prosopography)

Edition ψήφισμα ἐπεὶ Διονύσιος Παπύλου τοῦ Παπύλου ὁ ἱερεὺς τοῦ Νινευδίου Διὸς ἀνὴρ πατρὸς καὶ προγόνων ὑπάρχων καλῶν καὶ ἀγαθῶν καὶ ἐν ἀρχαῖς καὶ φιλοδοξίαις γεγονότων καὶ αὐτὸς ἀπὸ πρώτης ἡλικίας βίον σεμνὸν καὶ ἐνάρετον ἑλόμενος ἱερατείαν τε τῶν Σεβαστοῶν καὶ ἀγοωνοθεσί αν καὶ πρεσβείας καὶ ἐφηβαρχίαν καὶ στρατηγίαν καὶ γραμματήαν καὶ τὰς λοιπὰς πάσας ἀρχὰς σεμνῶς καὶ εὐσεβῶς καὶ νομίμως καὶ δικαίως τελέσας καὶ ζῶν βίον πάσῃ καλοκαγαθίᾳ κοσμούμενον καθὼς δι ὰ πλείστων ἤδη ψηφισμάτων μεμαρτύρηται αὐτῷ τὰ νῦν ἐπικλη θεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ δήμου καὶ αἱρεθεὶς ἀρχινεοποιὸς κεχειροτόνηται ἐ φ' οἷς ὁ δῆμος ἀποδεχόμενος τὴν ἐν πᾶσιν τοῦ ἀνδρὸς φιλόπολιν σπου δὴν ἀγομένων ἀρχαιρεσιῶν ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἐπηνέχθη πάλιν τειμῆ σαι αὐτὸν
Apparatus

l. 5, Σεβαστον καὶ ἀγον lapis

Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

No commentary yet (2007)

Locations

Walls, South (east part): Lying on the south side of the city wall, just west of the excavated stretch, near 12.602 (=MAMA 465), 12.714 (=561). Unknown Findspot

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications.

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (80); recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, 8, whence discussed A. Wilhelm, Beiträge 315; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 410, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 33 .

Photographs

Face (1973)