Description of Monument

White marble statue base whose face has been cut down for re-use, from a width of 0.66 at the back, to 0. 44 or a little less across the face (measurable 0.92, 0.60); there is a simple moulding below. The face is very worn.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face. The upper edge is complete; the text may have begun on an upper feature.

Description of Letters

0.035-0.04

Date

Middle to later second century A.D. (lettering and prosopography)

Edition ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος Τιβέριον Κλαύδιον Ἀντώνιον ΔιογένηνἈμμιανὸν υἱὸν Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Ἀντωνίου Δομετι νοῦ Ἑρμίου

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Beard, Reynolds); MAMA squeeze; publications.

Apparatus

Fellows had considerable difficulty in reading this stone, which was more easily understood from a squeeze, before the clearing of the West Gate in 2002

.ll.4-5: Cormack read an upright at the beginning of l.5 and so restored Δοκιμιανὸν. and, in ll.6-7 Δοκιμιανοῦ; but there is no parallel to support this conjecture. We do not read the upright on the squeeze. l. 7 Cormack proposed Ἕρμιον, a further name for the son; but the accusative would probably be written with an alpha

Translation

[? The Council and] the People (honoured) [Ti]berius Cl[audius A]ntonius D[iogenes? ?Am]mianos [son of] [Ti]berius Cla[udius A]ntonius Do[meti]nos Hermias.

Commentary

For the absence of a verb, compare e.g. 1308 (=MAMA 451), 12.642 (=452), (11.62 (=453).

Locations

Walls, West Gate: re-used, upside down, in the southern pier. Unknown Findspot

History of Recording

Recorded by Fellows; by Kubitschek (KIII.3b. Abklatsch 114); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Fellows, Acct. 359, no. 66 whence CIG 2781c (p. 1112); by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 496, whence McCabe 292.

Photographs

Face (2002)

Face (2002)