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.
Locations
Theatre: north parodos wallTheatre: north parodos wallFindspot
Text Constituted From
transcription (Reynolds).
History of Recording
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, McCabePHI Aphrodisias51.Discussed: Millar, Emperor in the Roman World 438-439, R. Bernhardt, Historia 29 (1980), 200 (immunity of free cities).