12.539. Honours for M. Aur. Cl. Ktesias

Description:
White marble base capital with heavy moulding above (top 0.68 × 0.70; shaft 0.42 × 0.37; height 0.32), broken away to right.
Text:
Inscribed on the upper moulding (l.1) on lower fascia (l.2) and on the shaft (l.3 ff). The text very probably continued on a base below.
Letters:
Letters: 0.0175; ligatures, ΗΜ l.1, ΜΗ l.2; superscript bars for abbreviation, l.4
Date:
Probably third century (lettering, nomenclature).
Findspot:
Walls, South-east: lying loose on the inner side of the wall, near 8.113 (MAMA 435).
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1989)
History of discovery:
Recorded by Gaudin; by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 132, no. 61, whence (on line 4) Robert, RPh 3, 1929, 126, no. 5, SEG 4, 399; by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 503, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 258.
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμο̣[ς καὶ ἡ γερουσία]
2ἐτείμησαν ταῖς καλ[λίσταις καὶ]
3πρεπούσαις τειμαῖ[ς]
4Μᾶρ(κον) Αὐρ(ήλιον) Κλ(αύδιον) Κτησίαν̣ [Δι]-
5ογᾶ τοῦ Ἡλιοδώρ[ου]
5a[·· ? ··
1ΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΟΔΗΜ·[· ··············]
2ΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΑΝΤΑΙΣΚΑΛ[··········]
3ΠΡΕΠΟΥΣΑΙΣΤΕΙΜΑΙ[·]
4ΜΑΡΑΥΡΚΛΚΤΗΣΙΑ·[··]
5ΟΓΑΤΟΥΗΛΙΟΔΩΡ[··]
5a[·· ? ··
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
ἡ
βουλὴ
καὶ
ὁ
δ
ῆμ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ο
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ς
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
καὶ
ἡ
γερουσία
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
ἐτεί
μη
σαν
ταῖς
καλ
<supplied reason="lost" >
λίσταις
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
καὶ
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
πρεπούσαις
τειμαῖ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ς
</supplied>
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Μᾶρ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
κον
</supplied>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Αὐρ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ήλιον
</supplied>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Κλ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
αύδιον
</supplied>
</expan>
Κτησία
<unclear reason="damage" >
ν
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
Δι
</supplied>
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
ογᾶ
τοῦ
Ἡλιοδώρ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ου
</supplied>
<lb n="5a" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="line" dim="bottom" />
</ab>

Translation:

The Council and the People [ and ? the Gerousia] honoured with the finest [and] fitting honours Mar(cus) Aur(elius) Cl(audius) Ktesias, [son of Di]ogas the son of Heliodoros [ . . .

Commentary:

It is probable that the honorand became Marcus Aurelius following the Edict of Caracalla on citizenship in A.D. 212, since he refers to his father and grandfather in the Greek manner, not that of a Roman citizen; but it is also probable that his family already had Roman citizenship as Claudii, being in that case one of the really early Aphrodisian families to receive it (from the emperor Claudius). Their continued use of the Greek manner of reference to ancestors is of particular interest in this connection.

Photographs:

Face (1989)
 Face (1989)
Face (1989)
 Face (1989)

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