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Archive wall, column 5, third course. The left side, covering one and a half blocks, is complete except for the upper right corner of the second block, but on the right side one block is broken and partly lost and the right end is wholly lost ; fragments of the lost areas have been found fallen in front of the wall.
Inscribed area
Second to third cent. A.D.: av.
Inscription:
The Emperors Severus and Antoninus to the [Magistrates) and the [Council and People] of the Aphrodisians, greetings.
It was most appropriate that you, who rejoiced at the conquest of the insolent barbarians and [?the establishment of peace in] all [?the inhabited world], celebrated the coming of joint rule shared with my father to me, Antoninus, [.. ? .. for you are ? good and noble men and] more closely related than others to the empire of the Romans because of [the goddess] who presides over your city. Your existing polity and its laws which have survived unchanged up to our reign [we preserve. ?Farewell].
See Aphrodisias and Rome, 127-129.
transcription (Reynolds)This edition: Reynolds (2007)
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1967; and fragments found over subsequent years (inventory nos.
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