12.25. Letter from Iulius Celer, quaestor, and petition to the emperor Trajan.
- Description:
- Moulded pilaster capital, badly damaged and partly broken away (W. 0.70 x H. 0.57 x D. 0.27).
- Text:
- Inscribed on three faces; the third is illegible.
- Letters:
- Second century A.D.; 0.015. diairesis in ii, l.3. The cutting is only of moderate quality.
- Date:
- 102-116 (imperial titles)
- Findspot:
- Walls, North: found loose in excavation just inside the northern stretch.
- Original Location:
- unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1969 (69.364)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reynolds, A&R 52 whence BE 1983:391; AnnEpig 1984.881, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 66 and 139.
- Text constituted from:
- transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1982).
- 1 Ἰούλιος Κέλερ ταμίας καὶ ἀντιστράτηγος
- 2 Ἀφροδισιέων ἄρχουσι vac. χαίρειν
- 1[Αὐ]τοκράτορι Νέρβᾳ Τραϊαν̣[ῷ Σεβαστῷ]
- 2[Γ]ερμανικῷ Δακικῷ ἔντευ̣[ξις Γαΐου Ἰου]-
- 3[λ]ίου Γαΐου vac. υἱοῦ Φαβία [·· c. 8 ··]
- 1ΙΟΥΛΙΟΣΚΕΛΕΡΤΑΜΙΑΣΚΑΙΑΝΤΙΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΟΣ
- 2ΑΦΡΟΔΙΣΙΕΩΝΑΡΧΟΥΣΙ ΧΑΙΡΕΙΝ
- 1[··]ΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΙΝΕΡΒΑΤΡΑΙΑ·[········]
- 2[·]ΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΩΔΑΚΙΚΩΕΝΤΕ·[···········]
- 3[·]ΙΟΥΓΑΙΟΥ ΥΙΟΥΦΑΒΙΑ[········]
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Ἰούλιος
Κέλερ
ταμίας
καὶ
ἀντιστράτηγος
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Ἀφροδισιέων
ἄρχουσι
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χαίρειν
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Αὐ
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τοκράτορι
Νέρβᾳ
Τραϊα
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ν
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ῷ
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Σεβαστῷ
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Γ
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ερμανικῷ
Δακικῷ
ἔντε
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υ
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ξις
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Γαΐου
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Ἰου
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λ
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ίου
Γαΐου
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υἱοῦ
Φαβία
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Translation:
i: Iulius Celer, quaestor pro praetore, to the magistrates of Aphrodisias, greetings.
ii. For Imperator Nerva Traianus [Augustus] Germanicus, Dacicus, petition of [Caius Iul]ius C.f., Fabia tribu [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
See Aphrodisias and Rome, 180. The documents may be related, but they may come from an archive of inscribed documents where they were juxtaposed.
Photographs:
- i Face (1969)
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- ii Face (1969)
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