<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for an anonymous benefactor

Joyce M. Reynolds1982

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Originally published in Reynolds (1982).

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Description of Monument

White marble block (0.68 x 0.84 x 0.28); there are three holes in the top for an attachment. Part of a composite monument.

Description of Text

inscribed on one face which is damaged along all edges. The text began on an upper block, and continued on a lower one or on one adjacent to the right.

Letters

late Republican: ll. 1, 2, av. 0.028; ll. 3, 4, av. 0.024 ; ll. 5-17, av. 0.022; ll. 18-20, av. 0.018; Α at the end of 1. 4 written small.

Date

Late Republican (lettering, content)

Edition σωτῆρα καὶ εὐεργέτην ἐκ πολλῶν καὶ μεγάλων κιν δύνων σεσωκότα τὴν πατρ ίδα πᾶσι τοῖς ἐνστᾶσι τῇ πα τρίδι πολέμοις ἀγωνισάμενον ἀνδρείως καὶ διαφυλαξαντα τὰ ἐμπιστευθέντα ὀχυρώματα ὑπὸ τῆς πόλεως καὶ πίστεις ἐν τοῖς ἀναγκαιοτάτοις καιροῖς διατηρήσαντα τῶι κοινῶι καὶ τὰς ἀρχὰς πάσας τελέσαντα καθαρῶς καὶ δικαίως καὶ συμφερόντως τῇ πόλει καὶ στεφανηφορήσαντα καὶ γυμνασιαρχή σαντα μεγαλομερῶς καὶ πολυδα πάνως καὶ ἱερατεύσαντα Ῥώμης καὶ ἀγορανομήσαντα ἐν τῇ χαλεπωτάτῃ σιτοδείᾳ καὶ σῖτον εὔωνον παρασχόντα τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνηλώμα σιν καὶ τὰς ἐν τοῖς πολέμοις ἀρχὰς
Apparatus

In l.12 there is a faint trace which may represent inefficient cutting of Ι between Α and Ω.

Translation

. . . ] great dangers, having fought bravely in all the wars which beset his country, having guarded the forts entrusted to him by the city and preserved faith to the common interest (?) in the most difficult circumstances, having filled all the magistracies with integrity and justice and to the advantage of the city, having been stephanephoros and gymnasiarch, in which offices he was magnificently generous, having held the priesthood of Rome, having been agoranomos at a time of most serious famine and provided corn at a fair price at his own expense, [having held] offices in the wars [.. .

Commentary

See Aphrodisias and Rome, 150-156.

Locations

Walls, South (west part) unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1977 (77. 137)

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 30, whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.387, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 26.

Photographs

Face (1978)
Face (1978)
Face (2001)
Face (2005)