<rs type="textType">Gladiator memorial</rs> for familia of M. Antonius Apellas Severinos

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

A large stele (1.46 x 0.87 x 0.28) with a central panel, within simple moulding, topped by a decorated pediment and acroteria and flanked by scrolls. The panel is supported by two winged victories, holding palms; between them is a smaller figure, with a wheel, identified by Robert as Nemesis.

Description of Text

Inscribed within the panel.

Letters

0.03-0.04, clear but irregular; lunate sigma and epsilon.

Date

Late second/early third century (prosopography).

Edition Ἀγαθῇ Τύχῃ ὑπόμνημα φαμιλίας καὶ κυνηγεσίων Μάρκου Ἀν τωνίου Ἀπελλᾶ Σεουη ρείνου ἀρχιερέως ὑιοῦ Μάρκου Ἀντωνίου Ὑψικλέ ους ἀρχιερέως
Translation

To Good Fortune. Memorial of the familia, and of the venationes of M. Antonius Apellas Severinos, son of M. Antonius Hypsikles, high-priest.

Commentary

See Roueché, Performers and Partisans ad loc.

Locations

Walls: 'in the city wall' (MAMA); stray find later. Unknown Museum (1990)

Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché); publications.

History of Recording

Recorded by W. H. Buckler; by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published from Buckler by Robert, Gladiateurs, no. 156, with discussion 56-9, 64; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA VIII.507, on which see Robert, Hell. XIII, 154-5, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 232 ; cf. BE 1966.402. Published by Roueché, PPA 15.

Photographs

Face (1978)
Face (1990)