4.101. Honours for an anonymous benefactor, ?Solon son of Demetrios
- Description:
- White marble block, chipped along all edges and also on the surface ; there are dowel-holes for an attachment above.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face. This is the conclusion of a text which must have been laid out in several columns. The supplements are hardly in doubt. In 1. 5 the long vacat at the end is likely to have been balanced by another at the beginning and that seems to be confirmed by the little that survives of the surface there.
- Letters:
- perhaps late Republican/Augustan: 0.05.
- Date:
- late Republican/Augustan (lettering)
- Findspot:
- South agora: near the east entrance to the agora in an area containing much re-used material.
- Original Location:
- unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1978 (inventory number 78.2
- Bibliography:
- Published byReynolds, A&R 41 whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.390, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 326 .
- Text constituted from:
- transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1982).
- 1[γ]ε̣νόμενος δὲ καὶ ἀστυνόμος καὶ νεωπο̣[ιὸ]ς̣ καὶ στρατηγὸ̣[ς]
- 2ἐ̣πὶ̣ χώρας ω στρατηγήσας δὲ πλεονάκις τῆς πόλεως πρεσβεύ-
- 3[σ]ας δὲ πλείστας καὶ μεγίστας πρεσβήας ἐπιτυχῶς ὑπὲρ τῆς πατ-
- 4[ρί]δος ω ἀγωνισάμενος δὲ καὶ περὶ τῆς ἐλευθερίας καὶ τῶν̣
- 5 [? vac. ] νόμων καὶ τῆς ἀσυλίας v. καὶ τῶν δεδομένων vac.
- 6[φι]λανθρώπων ω καὶ ἐνὶ πᾶσιν τούτοις τοῖς γενομένοις
- 7 ὑ̣π' αὐτοῦ καὶ τ[αῖς ἀρχ]α̣ῖ̣ς καὶ λιτουργίαισ̣ τιμηθείς [? vac. ]
- 1[·]·ΝΟΜΕΝΟΣΔΕΚΑΙΑΣΤΥΝΟΜΟΣΚΑΙΝΕΩΠ·[··]·ΚΑΙΣΤΡΑΤΗΓ·[·]
- 2·Π·ΧΩΡΑΣΩΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΗΣΑΣΔΕΠΛΕΟΝΑΚΙΣΤΗΣΠΟΛΕΩΣΠΡΕΣΒΕΥ
- 3[·]ΑΣΔΕΠΛΕΙΣΤΑΣΚΑΙΜΕΓΙΣΤΑΣΠΡΕΣΒΗΑΣΕΠΙΤΥΧΩΣΥΠΕΡΤΗΣΠΑΤ
- 4[··]ΔΟΣΩΑΓΩΝΙΣΑΜΕΝΟΣΔΕΚΑΙΠΕΡΙΤΗΣΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΙΑΣΚΑΙΤΩ·
- 5[···]ΝΟΜΩΝΚΑΙΤΗΣΑΣΥΛΙΑΣ ΚΑΙΤΩΝΔΕΔΟΜΕΝΩΝ
- 6[··]ΛΑΝΘΡΩΠΩΝΩΚΑΙΕΝΙΠΑΣΙΝΤΟΥΤΟΙΣΤΟΙΣΓΕΝΟΜΕΝΟΙΣ
- 7·Π'ΑΥΤΟΥΚΑΙΤ[······]··ΣΚΑΙΛΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΑΙΣ̣ΤΙΜΗΘΕΙΣ[···]
Translation:
[·· ? ··] having also been astynomos and neopoios and strategos in charge of the city-territory, and many times strategos in charge of the city, and having successfully carried out a number of very important embassies on behalf of his country; and having been active for (her) freedom and laws and the right of asylum and the privileges granted to her; and been honoured in all these things which he brought about and in his magistracies and liturgies.
Commentary:
The letter-forms of the inscription are comparatively early and seem to show resemblances to those of inscriptions honouring Zoilos in the theatre (late thirties - early Augustan); so that, although the formulae relating to embassies can be more easily paralleled in the first century A.D., there may be a case for associating the subject with the first grant of privileges to Aphrodisias in 39 B.C. and, indeed, for proposing tentatively his identification as Solon, son of Demetrios (docs. 8.25, ll. 14 f.; 8.27, 1. 22; 8.31, ll. 4--5). See further Aphrodisias and Rome, 166-167.
Photographs:
- Face (1980)
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- Face (1980)
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