Description of Monument

Two joining fragments of a single white marble block (1.33 x 0.33 x 0.85).

Description of Text

inscribed on the upper fascia (ll.1-2) and along the bottom of the lower, recessed, fascia (l.3).

Letters

second to third centuries A.D.; 0.03

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition ξεσθαι οὐ δίκαιον δ' ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ πόλιν ὑμετέραν ἀπὸ τῆς καθηγετίδος θεᾶς τὴν προσωνυμίαν ἔχουσαν τὰ δεδομένα φιλάνθρωπα ὑπό τε αὐτοκρατόρων καὶ συνκλήτου δήμου Ῥωμαίων

Apparatus

l. 1, The MAMA expedition is said to have seen a third fragment, now lost, carrying the letters ΠΟΛΙ; ΠΟΛ can still be deduced from the bases of the letters which survive on fragment 2, and a large part of Ι is visible.

l. 2, ΤΗΝ or ΤΗΜ, ΠΡΟΣΛ . . Υ[, MAMA; ἀπὸ τῆ]ς κτλ. τὴν προσω̣[ν]υ[μίαν ἔχουσαν Robert; in fact Ω is certain, followed by three uprights, and there are traces of Μ at the end.

l. 3, - - πα, συ[νκλ]ήτου Λ - MAMA; τὰ δεδομένα φιλάνθρω]πα, συν[κλή]του δ[ογμάτων Robert; the stone has deteriorated since 1934, but the surviving traces suggest the text as above, for there seems to be no room for two leters between Δ̣and Μ̣.

Translation

to [? ] but to me it seems unjust that your city [ . .? . . ]. deriving its name from the goddess who leads it [ . . ? . . ] the privileges given by emperors and the Senate of the Roman [people . . . ]

Commentary

See Robert, XIII, 125 ff, and Reynolds, , 177.

Locations

Walls, West, near 12.903 (= CIG 2754). unknown Findspot

Text Constituted From

publications, transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded in 1934 by the MAMA expedition; recorded by the NYU expedition in 1975.

Bibliography

Published by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 419, whence Robert Hellenica 13, 125-126, BE 1966.390. Published by Reynolds, A&R 49, whence SEG 32, 1982.1097; BE 1983.391, McCabe 67

Photographs

Right end (1975)