5. Honours for M. Aurelius Diogenes

Description

Monument: Two adjoining fragments of a white marble statue base shaft, complete above (0.45 × 1.10 × 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: AD 253-260 (content)

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	[Ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ]
	scroll δῆμος scroll
	Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον
	Διογένην πρεσ-
	βευτὴν Σεβασ-
5	τῶν ἀντιστρά-
	τηγον stop τὸν δίκαι-
	ον καὶ ἁγνὸν
	καὶ ἀνδρεῖον
	καὶ πάσῃ ἀρε-
10	τῇ κεκοσμη-
	scroll μένον scroll
	vacat
	προν[ο]ησαμένου τῆς
	ἀναστάσεως Ἀντω-
	νίου Νεικομάχου
15	τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ πρώ-
	του ἄρχοντος Ἀντω-
	νίου Κλαυδίου Νει-
	κομάχου ἀρχιερέ-
	ων ἐκγόνου τοῦ ἀ-
20	scroll ξιολογωτάτου scroll

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 Nicomachus, father of the first archon Antonius Claudius Nicomachus, offspring of high-priests, supervised the erection (of the monument).

Photographs

Lower part (1977) Upper part (1978) Top of base (1993) Assembled (1994)

Commentary

See discussion at I.14; for Diogenes, see List of Governors, M. Aur. Diogenes; for Nicomachus see Local Officials, Nicomachus.

Locations

Found: City walls: reused in the southern stretch, section excavated in 1975.
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Museum.

History

Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.330 and 332; statue base index 38a & b).
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 PHI 254.
Text constituted from: Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

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