12.326. Honours for emperor Caracalla
- Description:
- White marble statue base shaft, without moulding (W. 0.57 × H. 1.14 × D. 0.56). The stone is complete; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- ll.1-11, 0.025; ll.12 following, 0.02.
- Date:
- A.D. 198-210 (Caracalla's reign)
- Findspot:
- Walls, East (south part), on the inner face, just north of the South-east gate, near 12.325 , 12.317
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1973)
- History of discovery:
- Copied by Deering (f.3v, no. 14); copied by Waddington; recorded by K&R (squeeze); recorded by Gaudin (44); recorded by the MAMA expedition; recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Leake, from Deering, no. 4; by Waddington, LBW 1623; by Reinach, from Gaudin, no. 21; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 451, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 208.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Deering; publications This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 0a [αὐτοκράτορα Καίσαρα]
- 0b [Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον]
- 0c [Σεουῆρον]
- 1Ἀντωνεῖνον Σεβασ-
- 2τὸν μέγιστον υἱὸν
- 3τοῦ μεγίστου καὶ θε[ι]-
- 4οτάτου αὐτοκράτορος
- 5Καίσαρος Λουκίου Σε-
- 6πτιμίου Σεουήρου
- 7Περτίνακος Σεβασ-
- 8τοῦ εὐσεβοῦς Ἀραβ[ι]-
- 9 v. κοῦ Ἀδιαβηνικοῦ
- 10 vac. Παρθικοῦ vac.
- 11 vv. ὁ δῆμος vac.
- 12 ἐξ ἀπολείψεως v.
- 13 Φλαβίου Ἀττάλου star
- 14 v. ἐπιμεληθέντων
- 15Ἀμμιανοῦ τοῦ Παπίου γ´
- 16τοῦ Μαρίωνος Παπίου
- 17καὶ Ἐπαφροδείτου υἱοῦ
- 18Μ(άρκου) Ἀν(τωνείνου) Ἐπαφροδείτου κα̣ὶ
- 19Παπίου γ´ τοῦ Διογένους
- 20καὶ Καλλιμόρφου δὶς τοῦ
- 21 vac. Ἀρτεμιδώρου καὶ
- 22Μενάνδρου δὶς τοῦ Κρα-
- 23 vac. τέρου ἀρχόντων
- 0a[··················]
- 0b[··············]
- 0c[········]
- 1ΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟΝΣΕΒ[··]
- 2ΤΟΝΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΝΥΙΟΝ
- 3ΤΟΥΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΥΚΑΙΘΕ[·]
- 4ΟΤΑΤΟΥΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΟΣ
- 5ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣΛΟΥΚΙΟΥΣΕ
- 6ΠΤΙΜΙΟΥΣΕΟΥΗΡΟΥ
- 7ΠΕΡΤΙΝΑΚΟΣΣΕΒΑΣ
- 8ΤΟΥΕΥΣΕΒΟΥΣΑΡΑΒ[·]
- 9 ΚΟΥΑΔΙΑΒΗΝΙΚΟΥ
- 10 ΠΑΡΘΙΚΟΥ
- 11 ΟΔΗΜΟΣ
- 12ΕΞΑΠΟΛΕΙΨΕΩΣ
- 13ΦΛΑΒΙΟΥΑΤΤΑΛΟΥ star
- 14 ΕΠΙΜΕΛΗΘΕΝΤΩΝ
- 15ΑΜΜΙΑΝΟΥΤΟΥΠΑΠΙΟΥ[·]
- 16ΤΟΥΜΑΡΙΩΝΟΣΠΑΠΙΟΥ
- 17ΚΑΙΕΠΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΟΥΥΙΟΥ
- 18ΜΑΝΕΠΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΟΥΚ·[·]
- 19ΠΑΠΙΟΥΓΤΟΥΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥ[·]
- 20ΚΑΙΚΑΛΛΙΜΟΡΦΟΥΔΙΣΤΟΥ
- 21 ΑΡΤΕΜΙΔΩΡΟΥΚΑΙ
- 22ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥΔΙΣΤΟΥΚΡΑ
- 23 ΤΕΡΟΥΑΡΧΟΝΤΩΝ
Apparatus
Letters highlighted were read by earlier copyists, but not by us.
Translation:
[Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Severus] Antoninus Augustus, the greatest, son of the greatest and most divine Imperator Caesar Lucius Septimius Severus Pertinax Augustus Pius, conqueror of the Arabs, conqueror of the Adiabenes, conqueror of the Parthians: the People (put up his statue) from the bequest of Flavius Attalos. The magistrates Ammianos son of Papias the son of Papias, the son of Marion Papias, and Epaphroditos, son of Marcus Antonius Epaphroditos, and Papias, (son of Papias, son of Papias) the son of Diogenes, and Kallimorphos son of Kallimorphos the son of Artemidoros, and Menandros, son of Menandros, the son of Krateros, took responsibility.
Commentary:
Another statue of Caracalla (12.641), and one of Julia Domna (12.642), were set up from the same bequest.
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