Description:
Archive wall, column 5, on the third and fourth courses. The left-hand part is cut on one and a half blocks which are intact, the right-hand part shows increasing damage and the right end is almost wholly lost except for a few small fragments found fallen.
Text:
lnscribed area in situ, W. 1.56 x H. 0.145; line 1 outspaced.
Letters:
second to third centuries A.D.: l.1, 0.018, l.2, 0. 02, ll.3 ff., av. 0.018 ; ligatured ΜΕ in l.1, ΗΜ in 1.3, ΗΝ in 1.4, ΝΕ in l.5; diaeresis in l.5 ; bar above the figure in 1.2.
Date:
A.D. 224 (titulature, lettering).
Findspot:
Theatre: north parodos wall, and fragments found fallen
Original Location:
Theatre: north parodos wall
Last recorded location:
Findspot; fragments in Museum
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1967; a few small fragments found fallen (inv. nos. 67. 454, 67.457, 67.459 and unnumbered items).
Bibliography:
Published by Reynolds, A&R 19 whence SEG 32, 1982.1097, BE 1983.380; AnnEpig 1984, 873, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 56 .
Text constituted from:
transcription (Reynolds)This edition: Reynolds (2007) This edition Reynolds (1982).
1 αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ θεοῦ Σεουήρου Εὐσεβοῦς ἔκγονος [θε]οῦ Ἀντωνείνου Εὐσεβοῦς μεγί[στου υἱό]ς̣ Μᾶρκος Αὐρή[λιος Σεου]ῆ̣ρ̣ο̣ς̣ [Ἀλέξανδ]ρος
2 Εὐσεβὴς Εὐτυχὴς Σεβαστός ἀρχιερεὺς μέγιστος δημαρχικῆς ἐξουσίας τὸ γ´ stop ὕπα[τος πατὴρ πα]τρίδ[ος Ἀφροδεισιέων τοῖς ?ἄρχουσι]
3 καὶ τῷ δήμῳ χαίρειν v. τὸ μὲν παρελέσθαι τι τῶν ὑπαρξάντων τῇ πόλει δικαίων ἀλλ[ότριόν ?ἐστι ?τῆς ἐν τῇ] ἀρχῇ [τῇ ἐμῇ περὶ ?πάντας]
4 κηδεμονίας τὸ δὲ κατὰ ταὐτὰ γενέσθαι τὴν περὶ τῆς παρούσης ἀξιώσεως [·· c. 21 ··]Ε̣Ε̣Ε̣[·· c. 14 ·· λό]-
5γον ἔχει τὸν προσήκοντα ἀκροάσεται δὴ ὑμῶν ἴσον καὶ κοινὸν ἑαυτὸν καθ[?ιστὰς ?κρι]τήν [?ἐπρέσβευεν ·· c. 13 ·· εὐτυχεῖτε]
1ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡΚΑΙΣΑΡΘΕΟΥΣΕΟΥΗΡΟΥΕΥΣΕΒΟΥΣΕΚΓΟΝΟΣ[··]ΟΥΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟΥΕΥΣΕΒΟΥΣΜΕΓΙ[·······]·ΜΑΡΚΟΣΑΥΡΗ[········]····[·······]ΡΟΣ
2ΕΥΣΕΒΗΣΕΥΤΥΧΗΣΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΣΔΗΜΑΡΧΙΚΗΣΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΣΤΟΓ stop ΥΠΑ[··········]ΤΡΙΔ[·························]
3ΚΑΙΤΩΔΗΜΩΧΑΙΡΕΙΝ ΤΟΜΕΝΠΑΡΕΛΕΣΘΑΙΤΙΤΩΝΥΠΑΡΞΑΝΤΩΝΤΗΠΟΛΕΙΔΙΚΑΙΩΝΑΛΛ[·················]ΑΡΧΗ[···············]
4ΚΗΔΕΜΟΝΙΑΣΤΟΔΕΚΑΤΑΤΑΥΤΑΓΕΝΕΣΘΑΙΤΗΝΠΕΡΙΤΗΣΠΑΡΟΥΣΗΣΑΞΙΩΣΕΩΣ[·····················]···[················]
5ΓΟΝΕΧΕΙΤΟΝΠΡΟΣΗΚΟΝΤΑΑΚΡΟΑΣΕΤΑΙΔΗΥΜΩΝΙΣΟΝΚΑΙΚΟΙΝΟΝΕΑΥΤΟΝΚΑΘ[········]ΤΗΝ[·········· ······················]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
αὐτοκράτωρ
Καῖσαρ
θεοῦ
Σεουήρου
Εὐσεβοῦς
ἔκγονος
<supplied reason="lost" >
θε
</supplied>
οῦ
Ἀντωνείνου
Εὐσεβοῦς
μεγί
<supplied reason="lost" >
στου
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
υἱό
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ς
</unclear>
Μᾶρκος
Αὐρή
<supplied reason="lost" >
λιος
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Σεου
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ῆρος
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ἀλέξανδ
</supplied>
ρος
<lb n="2" />
Εὐσεβὴς
Εὐτυχὴς
Σεβαστός
ἀρχιερεὺς
μέγιστος
δημαρχικῆς
ἐξουσίας
τὸ
<num value="3" >
γ
</num>
<g type="stop" />
ὕπα
<supplied reason="lost" >
τος
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
πατὴρ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
πα
</supplied>
τρίδ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ος
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ἀφροδεισιέων
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τοῖς
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
ἄρχουσι
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
καὶ
τῷ
δήμῳ
χαίρειν
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
τὸ
μὲν
παρελέσθαι
τι
τῶν
ὑπαρξάντων
τῇ
πόλει
δικαίων
ἀλλ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ότριόν
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
ἐστι
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
τῆς
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἐν
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τῇ
</supplied>
ἀρχῇ
<supplied reason="lost" >
τῇ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ἐμῇ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
περὶ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
πάντας
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
κηδεμονίας
τὸ
δὲ
κατὰ
ταὐτὰ
γενέσθαι
τὴν
περὶ
τῆς
παρούσης
ἀξιώσεως
<gap reason="lost" extent="21" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
<unclear reason="damage" >
εεε
</unclear>
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="14" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
λό
</supplied>
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
γον
ἔχει
τὸν
προσήκοντα
ἀκροάσεται
δὴ
ὑμῶν
ἴσον
καὶ
κοινὸν
ἑαυτὸν
καθ
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
ιστὰς
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
κρι
</supplied>
τήν
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
ἐπρέσβευεν
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="13" unit="character" precision="circa" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
εὐτυχεῖτε
</supplied>
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 1. The letters ΡΟΣ are cut in an erased area.

1. 4. Only the upper horizontals survive for the letters printed Ε̣Ε̣Ε̣; each might also be Γ̣ Ζ̣, Ξ̣, Π̣, Σ̣, or Τ̣.

Translation:

Imperator Caesar M. Aure[lius Severus [Alexan]der, Pius, Felix, Augustus, [son] of divus Antoninus, Pius, Maximus, grandson of divus Severus, Pius, Pontifex Maximus, holding the tribunician power for the third time, consul, [father] of his country, [to the Magistrates] and People of the Aphrodisians, greetings.

To take away anything from the rights belonging to the city is foreign to the guardianship [extended to all in my] reign, but to bring under the same principle the [.. ? ..] in the matter of the present petition [.. ? ..] has the appropriate ?reputation (?value) ; he will listen, [offering] himself as your fair [?judge] and open to all. [.. ? .. was ambassador. Farewell].

Commentary:

See Aphrodisias and Rome, 129-131.

Photographs:

Left end in situ, view below 8.35, 8.36, 8.37, above 8.103 (1977)
 Left end in situ, view below 8.35, 8.36, 8.37,  above 8.103 (1977)
Left end in situ, view below 8.36, 8.37, above 8.103 (1977)
 Left end in situ, view below  8.36, 8.37, above 8.103 (1977)
Archive Wall view (1994)
 Archive Wall view (1994)

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