<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for the people of Aphrodisias

Joyce M. Reynolds1982

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Originally published in Reynolds (1982).

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Description of Monument

White marble statue base shaft (0.53 x 1.13 x 0.53) broken above and chipped at all edges, especially badly on the lower half of the right side.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the exposed face, which is badly eroded in the lower part.

Letters

Letters, third cent. A.D.; ll. 1-10, 12-17, av. 0.025 ; 1. 11, 0.018 ; ligatured ΜΜ in l. 2, ΜΗ in l. 13. The small letters of l. 11 suggest an afterthought fitted into a space originally left blank (so Paton).

Date

Late second or third century (lettering)

Edition τὸν τατον δῆμον σύμμαχον Ῥωμαίων τῆς λαμπροτάτης φι λοσεβάστου ἐλευθέ ρας καὶ αὐτονόμου κα τὰ τὰ δόγματα τῆς ἱε ρωτάτης συνκλήτου καὶ τὰ ὅρκια καὶ τὰς θεί ας ἀντιγραφὰς Ἀφροδι σιέων πόλεως ἀσύλου καθιέρωσεν Μᾶρκος Αὐρήλιος Ἑρμῆς πα σομ ἀναθεὶς δηνάρια ὀκ τὼ μυρίους εἰς αἰωνίους κλήρους τῇ κρατίστῃ βουλῇ
Apparatus

P1 denotes Paton's transcription, P2 his interpretation: the restorations in ll. 1-8 are taken from P1. There has been some deterioration of the stone since he saw it.

l. 1, ΛΙΟΝΑ P1, τὸν δῆμον P2

l. 2, συμαχον P1, P2

l. 4, ΕΛΕΥΘ P1, ἐλευθε- P2

l. 7, συνκλήτου P1, P2.

l. 10, καθιέωσεν P1, P2

l. 13, ΜΑΙ ΡΕΡΜΗΣΠΑ- P1, nil P2, ? for Μαρ. Αὐρ. Ἑρμῆς Παπ Robert.

l. 14, ΣOI ΖΛΝΛΘΕΙΣ P1, ἀναθείς P2.

l. 15, ΤΟΙ ΛΣΕΙΣ ΑΙΩΝΙ P1, τὸ ας εἰς αἰωνί P2.

l. 16, ΛΟΥΣ ΤΗΚΡΑΤΣΤ P1, ους χρόνους τῇ κρατισ- P2, ους κλήρους Robert.

l. 17, ΒΟΥΛΗ P1, τῇ βουλῇ P2.

Translation

('?Statue of) the most [?distinguished] Demos, ally of the Romans, of the glorious city of the Aphrodisians, devoted to the emperor, free and autonomous according to the decrees of the most holy Senate and the treaty and the divine (imperial) responses, with asylia.

M. Aurelius Hermes P[-.. ? ..] who dedicated [?80,000 denarii] for perpetual distributions to the most mighty Council.

Commentary

See Aphrodisias and Rome, 169-170.

Locations

Karaçasu: re-used in a fountain. unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds), publications.

History of Recording

Recorded by Paton; by the NYU expedition in 1976.

Bibliography

Published by Paton, JHS 20, 1900, 77-78, no. 6, whence Robert, RPh 4, 1930, 27 (= OMS II.127), AntClass 1966, 410; republished byReynolds, A&R 43 whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.390, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 214.

Photographs

In situ (1976)
Face (1976)