Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

6. Honours for M. Aurelius Diogenes

Description

Monument: A white marble statue base shaft, complete on all sides (0.51 × 1.16 × 0.46).
Text: Inscribed on the face; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.
Letters: ll. 1-9, 0.027; ll. 10-16, 0.025. Ligatures: ΝΗΝ, l.2; ΝΗ, l. 3; ΤΗ, ll.8, 11; ΝΤ, l. 14.
Date: AD 253-260 (content).

Text

	[?Ἡ πόλις]
	Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον
	Διογένην τὸν λαμ-
	πρότατον ἡγεμό-
	να ἔνδοξον ἀν-
5	δρεῖον ἁγνὸν φι-
	λάνθρωπον, διὰ
	πάσης ἥκοντα ἀ-
	ρέτης, τὸν ἑαυτῆς
	scroll εὐεργέτην scroll
	vacat
10	προνοησαμένων
	τῆς ἀναστάσεως
	τῶν περὶ Μᾶρκον
	Ἀντώνιον Οὐενί-
	διον Ἀπελλᾶν τὸν
15	ἀξιολογώτατον ἀρ-
	scroll χόντων scroll

Translation

[The City (put up the statue of)] Marcus Aurelius Diogenes, the most splendid governor, distinguished, brave, decent, generous, having achieved all virtue, her benefactor; the archons (led by) the most worthy Marcus Venidius Apellas supervised the erection (of the monument).

Photographs

Front face (1976)	Front face (1978)	Top of base (1993)

Commentary

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

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 (75.327; statue base index 36).
Bibliography: Published by •Roueché (1981), 5, whence SEG 1981.909; BE 1982.357; An.Ép. 1981.769; by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 6, whence PHI 255.
Text constituted from: Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché).

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