8.33. Letter: subscript of Trajan to Smyrna
- Description:
- Archive wall, column 4, second course, below 512
- Text:
- Inscribed area, 2.01 x 0..22).
- Letters:
- Second to third cent. A.D.; ave. 0.022; ligature: ΗΜ, ΝΗ, ΜΗ l.3, ΜΗ l. 4, ΝΗ l. 5 ; apex in l. 2 ; diaeretic dots in ll.. 1, 4, 6.
- Date:
- Inscription: second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, context). Document: 98 or 100 A.D. (titulature).
- Findspot:
- Theatre: north parodos wall
- Original Location:
- Theatre: north parodos wall
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1967
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, A&R 14 whence BE 1983.751, SEG 32, 1982.1202, AnnEpig 1984, 868; SEG 35,1985.1081; ISmyrna 593, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 51 .Discussed: Millar, Emperor in the Roman World 438-439, R. Bernhardt, Historia 29 (1980), 200 (immunity of free cities).
- Text constituted from:
- transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (1982).
- 1 vac. αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ Τραϊανὸς Σμυρναίοις vac.
- 2 οὐδένα βούλομαι ἐκ τῶν ἐλευθέρων πόλεων ἀνανκάζεσθαι εἰς ὑμετέραν λειτουργίαν καὶ
- 3 μάλιστα ἐξ Ἀφροδεισιάδος ἐξῃρημένης τῆς πόλεως καὶ τοῦ τύπου τῆς ἐπαρχείας v. ὥστε μήτε
- 4 εἰς τὰς κοινὰς τῆς Ἀσίας μήτε εἰς ἑτέρας λειτουργίας ὑπάγεσθαι Τιβέριον Ἰουλιανὸν Ἄτταλον
- 5 ἀπολύω τοῦ ἐν Σμύρνῃ ναοῦ καὶ μάλιστα μαρτυρούμενον ὑπὸ τῆς ἰδίας πατρίδος ἔγραψα δὲ περὶ
- 6 vac. τούτων καὶ Ἰουλίῳ Βάλβῳ τῷ φίλῳ μου καὶ ἀνθυπάτῳ vac.
- 1 ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡΚΑΙΣΑΡΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΣΣΜΥΡΝΑΙΟΙΣ
- 2ΟΥΔΕΝΑΒΟΥΛΟΜΑΙΕΚΤΩΝΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΩΝΠΟΛΕΩΝΑΝΑΝΚΑΖΕΣΘΑΙΕΙΣΥΜΕΤΕΡΑΝΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΑΝΚΑΙ
- 3ΜΑΛΙΣΤΑΕΞΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΣΙΑΔΟΣΕΞΗΡΗΜΕΝΗΣΤΗΣΠΟΛΕΩΣΚΑΙΤΟΥΤΥΠΟΥΤΗΣΕΠΑΡΧΕΙΑΣ ΩΣΤΕΜΗΤΕ
- 4ΕΙΣΤΑΣΚΟΙΝΑΣΤΗΣΑΣΙΑΣΜΗΤΕΕΙΣΕΤΕΡΑΣΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΑΣΥΠΑΓΕΣΘΑΙΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝΙΟΥΛΙΑΝΟΝΑΤΤΑΛΟΝ
- 5ΑΠΟΛΥΩΤΟΥΕΝΣΜΥΡΝΗΝΑΟΥΚΑΙΜΑΛΙΣΤΑΜΑΡΤΥΡΟΥΜΕΝΟΝΥΠΟΤΗΣΙΔΙΑΣΠΑΤΡΙΔΟΣΕΓΡΑΨΑΔΕΠΕΡΙ
- 6 ΤΟΥΤΩΝΚΑΙΙΟΥΛΙΩΒΑΛΒΩΤΩΦΙΛΩΜΟΥΚΑΙΑΝΘΥΠΑΤΩ
Translation:
Imperator Caesar Trajanus to the Smyrnaeotes. I wish no one from the free cities to be forced into (performing) your liturgy, and especially no one from Aphrodisias, since that city has been removed from the formula provinciae so that it is not liable either to the common liturgies of Asia or to others. I release Tiberius Julianos Attalos from (performance of a liturgy in) the temple in Smyrna; (he is) a man who has the highest testimonials from his own city; and I have written about these matters to Julius Balbus, my friend and the proconsul.
Commentary:
See Aphrodisias and Rome, 113-115.
Photographs:
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