12.33. Honours for the proconsul, Sulpicius Priscus
- Description:
- A white marble statue base; no measurements..
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.035; ligatured ΗΜ in l.9; deliberate erasure in l.11.
- Date:
- A.D. 222/235 (reign)
- Findspot:
- Walls, North, found with 12.34
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1904)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Gaudin (161); not reported subsequently.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 84, no. 4, whence Abbott & Johnson, no. 138, Veyne, Mél. Piganiol 1395-1396, BE 1967.554; by Reynolds, from Gaudin, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 47, whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.391, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 327 .
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription from squeeze (Reynolds); publications. This edition Reynolds (1982).
- 1 ὁ δῆμος
- 2 τῆς λαμπροτάτης
- 3 Ἀφροδεισιέων
- 4 πόλεως Σουλπίκιον
- 5 Πρεῖσκον τὸν δια-
- 6σημότατον ἀνθύ-
- 7πατον κατὰ τὰς τοῦ
- 8 μεγίστου καὶ θειο-
- 9τάτου κυρίου ἡμῶν
- 10 αὐτοκράτορος Σεου-
- 11[ή]ρου Ἀλεξάνδρου
- 12[?ἐντολάς]
- 1ΟΔΗΜΟΣ
- 2ΤΗΣΛΑΜΠΡΟΤΑΤΗΣ
- 3ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΣΙΕΩΝ
- 4ΠΟΛΕΩΣΣΟΥΛΠΙΚΙΟΝ
- 5ΠΡΕΙΣΚΟΝΤΟΝΔΙΑ
- 6ΣΗΜΟΤΑΤΟΝΑΝΘΥ
- 7ΠΑΤΟΝΚΑΤΑΤΑΣΤΟΥ
- 8ΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΥΚΑΙΘΕΙΟ
- 9ΤΑΤΟΥΚΥΡΙΟΥΗΜΩΝ
- 10ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΟΣΣΕΟΥ
- 11[·]ΡΟΥΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
- 12[·······]
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ὁ
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τῆς
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Ἀφροδεισιέων
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πόλεως
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σημότατον
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ή
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ἐντολάς
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Translation:
The People of the most splendid city of the Aphrodisians (set up a statue of) Sulpicius Priscus, perfectissimus vir, proconsul, according to [?the instructions] of our greatest and most revered lord Imperator Severus [Alexander].
Commentary:
See Reynolds, loc. cit.
- Photographs:
- none.
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