<rs type="textType">Edict</rs> of Silius Italicus, proconsul

Joyce M. Reynolds1982

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Originally published in Reynolds (1982).

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Description of Monument

Upper part of a white marble statue base shaft ( 0.53 x 0.37 x 0.58)

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.02-0.025

Date

77 A.D. (prosopography)

Edition Τιβέριος Κάτιος Ἀσκώ νιος Σείλιος Εἰταλικὸς ἀνθύπατος λέγει καὶ ψηφισμάτων ὄντων καθὰ κωλύεται συνλαμ βάνειν τρέφειν σοβεῖν ἐν τῇ πόλει τὰς περιστερὰς τῆς τε θρησκείας τῆς περὶ τὴν θεὸν εσθατι
Apparatus

l.1: [Τι]βέριος Calder, Τιβέριος MAMA, Ἀσκω Calder, Ἀσκ̣ω̣ MAMA.

l.3: κα[ὶ] Calder, Sokolowski, Robert; κα[ίπερ] MAMA.

l.7: ?[πωλεῖν Calder, [πιάζειν Sokolowski.

l.10: ΣΘΑ[Ι] Calder, [χάριν, ἀλλ᾿αἰδεῖ]σ̣θαι̣ Sokolowski, [ἀμελεῖν τινες] τ̣ολ̣[μῶσι] MAMA.

Translation

Ti. Catius Asconius Silius Italicus, proconsul, announces: although decrees also exist by which it is forbidden to catch, keep, scare or [ . . ? . . ] the [doves] in the city and [ . . ? . . ] of the cult concerning the goddess [ . . .

Commentary

When the site was identified in 1976 the cistern had been dismantled and its stones apparently re-used in a newly-built farmhouse, but this piece was not visible; it has presumably been broken up or re-used with the inscribed face covered. See further Aphrodisias and Rome, 173.

For the proconsul, the poet Silius Italicus, see PIR C1 0474, and W. Eck, Senatoren von Vespasian bis Hadrian (1970), 82 f.

Locations

Necropolis, West: lying beside a cistern about 3 km approximately westwards of Aphrodisias at a bearing of 255° on the Acropolis (1934). unknown Findspot (1934)

Text Constituted From

Publications, MAMA squeeze (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the MAMA expedition in 1934; not reported subsequently.

Bibliography

Published by Calder, CR 49, 1935, 216-217, whence BE 1938.395, Campbell, CR 50, 1936, 56-58; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 411, whence L. Robert, Hellenica 13, l4, BE 1966.384, Sokolowski, LSAM 189, no. 86, SEG 15, 660; Robert, JS 1971, 81-97; published, from all these, Reynolds, A&R 46 whence SEG 32, 1982.1097; BE 1983.391, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 75 . Discussion by D. J. Campbell, CR 50 (1936), 56 f. (on the prosopography) ; E. Bikermann, Syria 25 (1948), 83; J. and L. Robert, Bull. Ep. 1971.613 ; M. Guarducci RAL 1973, 587 f. ; J. and L. Robert, Bull. Ep. 1976. 90 (all on the doves)

Photographs

No photographs