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6. Honours for M. Aurelius Diogenes

Description | Text | Translation | Images | Commentary | Location | History


Description

  • Monument: A white marble statue base shaft, complete on all sides (0.51 × 1.16 × 0.46).
  • Text: Inscribed on the face; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.
  • Letters: ll. 1-9, 0.027; ll. 10-16, 0.025. Ligatures: ΝΗΝ, l.2; ΝΗ, l. 3; ΤΗ, ll.8, 11; ΝΤ, l. 14.
  • Date: AD 253-260 (content).

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  [?Ἡ πόλις]
  Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον
  Διογένην τὸν λαμ-
  πρότατον ἡγεμό-
  να ἔνδοξον ἀν-
δρεῖον ἁγνὸν φι-
  λάνθρωπον, διὰ
  πάσης ἥκοντα ἀ-
  ρέτης, τὸν ἑαυτῆς
  scroll εὐεργέτην scroll
  vacat
10  προνοησαμένων
  τῆς ἀναστάσεως
  τῶν περὶ Μᾶρκον
  Ἀντώνιον Οὐενί-
  διον Ἀπελλᾶν τὸν
15  ἀξιολογώτατον ἀρ-
  scroll χόντων scroll

Translation

[The City (put up the statue of)] Marcus Aurelius Diogenes, the most splendid governor, distinguished, brave, decent, generous, having achieved all virtue, her benefactor; the archons (led by) the most worthy Marcus Venidius Apellas supervised the erection (of the monument).

Photographs

Front face (1976) Front face (1978) Top of base (1993)
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Commentary

See discussion at I.14; for Diogenes, see List of Governors, M. Aur. Diogenes.

Locations

  • Found: City walls: reused in the southern stretch, section excavated in 1975.
  • Original: Unknown.
  • Last Recorded: Museum.

History

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