8.23. Honours for T. Claudius Diogenes
- Description:
- Two white marble frieze blocks: the first (W. 0.685 long) bears the mark ΑΑ; the second (W. 0.97) has [?Β]Α.
- Text:
- Inscribed in 3 lines on the fascia. The text began on a third, missing, block to the left.
- Letters:
- 0.026-0.027. Star for stop.
- Date:
- Mid to late first century A.D. (prosopography, lettering) or a descendant.
- Findspot:
- Theatre: stage area
- Original Location:
- Theatre proskenion frieze. Inscribed on the blocks which make up the cornice, of the Doric order, above 8.1, the inscription of Zoilos, across the back of the Theatre stage. The blocks have simple moulding above, supporting water spouts in the form of lions' heads; the underside has a decoration of mutules.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1989), restored north of (unpublished), just south of porta regia.
- History of discovery:
- Εxcavated by the NYU expedition in 1971 (no catalogue numbers).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 317-27, no.4, whence SEG 31, 1981.901; BullEp 1982.356, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 296
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (1981).
- 1[ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησαν Τι(βέριον) ?Κλαύ] | διον Διογένην ἀρχιερέα τῆς | Ἀ̣σίας καὶ σεβαστοφάντην καὶ ἀγωνοθέ -
- 2[?την ·· c. 27 ··] | εὐεργέτην δίκαιον φιλάνθ[ρ]|ωπον φιλοπολείτην stop νομοθέτην δὶς γυ-
- 3[μνασιαρχήσαντα καὶ τὰς ἀρχὰς τὰς λοι]|π̣ὰς ἀνυπερθέτως πεπλη̣|ρ̣ωκότα πάσας vac.
- 1[····································]ΔΙΟΝΔΙΟΓΕΝΗΝΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΑΤΗΣ·ΣΙΑΣΚΑΙΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΦΑΝΤΗΝΚΑΙΑΓΩΝΟΘΕ
- 2[··· ···························]ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΗΝΔΙΚΑΙΟΝΦΙΛΑΝΘ[·]ΩΠΟΝΦΙΛΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΗΝ stop ΝΟΜΟΘΕΤΗΝΔΙΣΓΥ
- 3[·······························]·ΑΣΑΝΥΠΕΡΘΕΤΩΣΠΕΠΛ··ΩΚΟΤΑΠΑΣΑΣ
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἡ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
βουλὴ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
καὶ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ὁ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
δῆμος
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἐτείμησαν
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
<expan>
</supplied>
<abbr>
Τι
</abbr>
<supplied
reason="abbreviation"
>
</expan>
βέριον
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
Κλαύ
</supplied>
<milestone
unit="block"
/>
διον
Διογένην
ἀρχιερέα
τῆς
<milestone
unit="block"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Ἀ
</unclear>
σίας
καὶ
σεβαστοφάντην
καὶ
ἀγωνοθέ
<lb
n="2"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
την
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="27"
unit="character"
precision="circa"
/>
<milestone
unit="block"
/>
εὐεργέτην
δίκαιον
φιλάνθ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ρ
</supplied>
<milestone
unit="block"
/>
ωπον
φιλοπολείτην
<g
type="stop"
/>
νομοθέτην
δὶς
γυ
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
μνασιαρχήσαντα
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
καὶ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τὰς
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἀρχὰς
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τὰς
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
λοι
</supplied>
<milestone
unit="block"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
π
</unclear>
ὰς
ἀνυπερθέτως
πεπλ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
η
</unclear>
<milestone
unit="block"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ρ
</unclear>
ωκότα
πάσας
<space
extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
Apparatus
l. 2, δίκαιον omitted in first publication.
Translation:
[The Council and the People honoured Ti(berius) Clau]dius Diogenes, high-priest of Asia, and sebastophant, and contest-president[...] benefactor, just, lover of mankind, lover of the citizens, nomothete, twice gy[mnasiarch and] having carried out all [the other offices] unsurpassably.
Commentary:
This may well be the man who restored the Sebasteion portico, under Claudius and Nero. See discussion by Reynolds, loc. cit. below, and Aphrodisias Papers 2, 18.
Photographs:
- b (1973)
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- Assembled, in situ (1989)
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