<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for Aur<supplied reason="abbreviation">elius</supplied> Gaius, centurio frumentarius

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Plain white marble statue base (0.53 × 1.09 × 0.50), broken at the upper corners and upper right side.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face. The upper edge, although chipped, is complete; the text must have begun on an upper feature.

Description of Letters

Lines 1-10, 0.03; lines 11 ff., 0.025. Ligatures: TH, l. 9, ME, l. 11. Circular stop; full-stop to mark abbreviation.

Date

Third century A.D. (lettering, nomenclature, content)

Edition ἡ πόλις Αὐρήλιον Γάϊον ἑκα τόνταρχον φρου μεντάριον ἁ γνῶς καὶ ἀνδρεί ως ἀναστραφέν τα ἐν τῷ τῆς Ἀσί ας ἔθνει εὐνοί ας καὶ στοργῆς ἕ νεκεν τῆς εἰς αὑ τὴν ἠμείψατο ἐπεμελήσατο τῆς ἀναστάσεως τοῦ ἀνδριάντος ὁ ἀξι ολογώτατος Ἀντώνιος Νεικόμαχος .
Translation

[?The city has honoured] Aur(elius) Gaius, centurio frumentarius, who has conducted himself decently and bravely in the province of Asia, for his goodwill and affection towards her. The most worthy Ant(onius) Neikomachos oversaw the erection of the statue.

Commentary

This inscription is similar to, but not identical with, 12.932 (=CIG 2802). Foer discussion, see Roueché, JRS 71, 1981, 113-117.

Locations

Walls, West: fallen from the streach south of the West gate, near 12.925 (=CIG 2763) and 12.929 (=2765), 12.924 (=MAMA 512). Unknown Findspot (1994)

Text Constituted From

Publications; Gaudin's squeeze; Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (39); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 145-147, no. 78, whence ILS 9474; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 508; by Roueché, JRS 71, 1981, 113-117, no. 7, whence SEG 1981.905, col. 1, BE 1982.357, AnnEpig 1981.771, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 256.

Photographs

Face (1976)
Face (1994)