12.644. Honours for M. Aurelius Diogenes
- Description:
- Two adjoining fragments of a white marble statue base shaft, complete above (H. 0.45 × W. 1.10 × D. 0.45).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.
- Letters:
- ll. 1-11, 0.025; ll. 12-20, 0.015. Ligatures: ΝΗΝ, l. 3; ΗΝ, l. 4; ΤΗ, ll.6, 12; ΝΗ, l.12
- Date:
- A.D. 253-260 (content)
- Findspot:
- Walls, South (east part): reused in the section excavated in 1975.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1994).
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.330; SBI 38a & 38b).
- Bibliography:
- Published by •Roueché, (1981), 4, whence SEG 1981.908, BE 1982.357, An.Ép. 1981.768; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 5. whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 254.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 0[Ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ]
- 1 scroll δῆμος scroll
- 2Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον
- 3Διογένην πρεσ-
- 4βευτὴν Σεβασ-
- 5τῶν ἀντιστρά-
- 6τηγον stop τὸν δίκαι-
- 7ον καὶ ἁγνὸν
- 8καὶ ἀνδρεῖον
- 9καὶ πάσ̣ῃ ἀρε-
- 10τῇ κεκοσμη-
- 11 scroll μένον scroll
- 11a vacat
- 12προν<ο>ησαμένου τῆς
- 13ἀναστάσεως Ἀντω-
- 14νίου Νεικομάχου
- 15τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ πρώ-
- 16του ἄρχοντος Ἀντω-
- 17νίου Κλαυδίου Νει-
- 18κομάχου ἀρχιερέ-
- 19ων ἐκγόνου τοῦ ἀ-
- 20 scroll ξιολογωτάτου scroll
- 0[·············]
- 1 scroll ΔΗΜΟΣ scroll
- 2ΜΑΡΚΟΝΑΥΡΗΛΙΟΝ
- 3ΔΙΟΓΕΝΗΝΠΡΕΣ
- 4ΒΕΥΤΗΝΣΕΒΑΣ
- 5ΤΩΝΑΝΤΙΣΤΡΑ
- 6ΤΗΓΟΝ stop ΤΟΝΔΙΚΑΙ
- 7ΟΝΚΑΙΑΓΝΟΝ
- 8ΚΑΙΑΝΔΡΕΙΟΝ
- 9ΚΑΙΠΑ·ΗΑΡΕ
- 10ΤΗΚΕΚΟΣΜΗ
- 11 scroll ΜΕΝΟΝ scroll
- 11a vacat
- 12ΠΡΟΝΗΣΑΜΕΝΟΥΤΗΣ
- 13ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΕΩΣΑΝΤΩ
- 14ΝΙΟΥΝΕΙΚΟΜΑΧΟΥ
- 15ΤΟΥΠΑΤΡΟΣΤΟΥΠΡΩ
- 16ΤΟΥΑΡΧΟΝΤΟΣΑΝΤΩ
- 17ΝΙΟΥΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥΝΕΙ
- 18ΚΟΜΑΧΟΥΑΡΧΙΕΡΕ
- 19ΩΝΕΚΓΟΝΟΥΤΟΥΑ
- 20 scroll ΞΙΟΛΟΓΩΤΑΤΟΥ scroll
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Ἡ
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δῆμος
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Μᾶρκον
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βευτ
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τῇ
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μένον
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προ
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του
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νίου
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κομάχου
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ων
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ξιολογωτάτου
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Translation:
[The Council and the] People (have honoured) Marcus Aurelius Diogenes, legatus Augustorum pro praetore, he (who is) just, and decent, and brave, and adorned with every virtue; the most worthy Antonius Neikomachos, father of the first archon Antonius Claudius Neikomachos, offspring of high-priests, supervised the erection (of the monument).
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 I.14.
Photographs:
- Lower part (1977)
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- Upper part (1978)
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- Top of base (1993)
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- Assembled (1994)
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