<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for a centurio frumentarius

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Presumably a statue base.

Description of Text

No description

Letters

No description

Date

Third century A.D. (terminology, comparanda)

Edition e.g. ἡ πόλις τὸν δεῖνα ἑκατόνταρχον φρουμεντάριον ἁγνῶς καὶ ἀνδρείως ἀναστραφέντα ἐν τῷ τῆς Ἀσίας ἔθνει εὐνοίας καὶ στοργῆς ἕνεκεν τῆς εἰς αὑτὴν ἠμείψατο ἐπ ι ε μελήσατο τῆς ἀναστάσεως τοῦ ἀνδριάντος ὁ ἀξιολογώτατος Ἀντώνιος Ἀνδρόνικος
Apparatus

l. 1, ΤΟΝΑΡΧ.

l. 2, Boeckh's copy of Sherard's notes showed ΑΡΙΟΥ, but the MS has ΑΡΙΟΝ

l. 4, ΔΡΙΩΣ

l. 6, ΕΘΝΟΙ

l. 8, ΤΕΣ

l. 10, Sherard copied this line twice. ΕΠΙΜΕΛ.

ll. 12/13, ΟΑΣ/ΟΥΤΟΠΩΤΑΤΟΖΑΝΤΟ.

Translation

[The city has rewarded [...] centurio frumentarius, who has conducted himself decently and bravely in the province of Asia, for his goodwill and affection towards her. The most worthy Antonius Androneikos oversaw the erection of the statue.

Commentary

This inscription is similar to, but not (as Cormack thought) identical with, 12.931 (=MAMA 508); see discussion by Roueché, JRS 71, 1981, 113-117..

Locations

Unknown Walls, West: central western stretch, near 12.925 (=CIG 2763) and 12.929 (CIG 2765). Findspot (1716)

Text Constituted From

Publications; Sherard papers

History of Recording

Transcribed by Sherard in 1716 (10101, 128); not reported subsequently.

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh, from Sherard papers, CIG 2802; by Roueché, JRS 71, 1981, 113-117, no. 8, whence SEG 1981.905, col. 2, BE 1982.357, AnnEpig 1981.771, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 360