12.645. Honours for M. Aurelius Diogenes
- Description:
- A white marble Statue base shaft, complete on all sides (H. 0.51 × W. 1.16 × D. 0.46).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.
- Letters:
- ll. 1-9, 0.027; ll. 10-16, 0.025. Ligatures: ΝΗΝ, l.2; ΝΗ, l. 3; ΤΗ, ll.8 (bis), 11; ΝΤ, l. 14.
- Date:
- A.D. 253-260 (content).
- Findspot:
- Walls, South (east part): reused in the southern stretch, section excavated in 1975.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1993).
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.327; SBI 36).
- Bibliography:
- Published by •Roueché (1981), 5, whence SEG 1981.909; BE 1982.357; An.Ép. 1981.769; by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 6, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 255.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 0[?Ἡ πόλις]
- 1Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον
- 2Διογένην τὸν λαμ-
- 3πρότατον ἡγεμό-
- 4να ἔνδοξον ἀν-
- 5δρεῖον ἁγνὸν φι-
- 6λάνθρωπον, διὰ
- 7πάσης ἥκοντα ἀ-
- 8ρέτης, τὸν ἑαυτῆς
- 9 scroll εὐεργέτην scroll
- 9a vacat
- 10προνοησαμένων
- 11τῆς ἀναστάσεως
- 12τῶν περὶ Μᾶρκον
- 13Ἀντώνιον Οὐενί-
- 14διον Ἀπελλᾶν τὸν
- 15ἀξιολογώτατον ἀρ-
- 16 scroll χόντων scroll
- 0[·······]
- 1ΜΑΡΚΟΝΑΥΡΗΛΙΟΝ
- 2ΔΙΟΓΕΝΗΝΤΟΝΛΑΜ
- 3ΠΡΟΤΑΤΟΝΗΓΕΜΟ
- 4ΝΑΕΝΔΟΞΟΝΑΝ
- 5ΔΡΕΙΟΝΑΓΝΟΝΦΙ
- 6ΛΑΝΘΡΩΠΟΝΔΙΑ
- 7ΠΑΣΗΣΗΚΟΝΤΑΑ
- 8ΡΕΤΗΣΤΟΝΕΑΥΤΗΣ
- 9 scroll ΕΥΕΡΓΕΤΗΝ scroll
- 9a vacat
- 10ΠΡΟΝΟΗΣΑΜΕΝΩΝ
- 11ΤΗΣΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΕΩΣ
- 12ΤΩΝΠΕΡΙΜΑΡΚΟΝ
- 13ΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΝΟΥΕΝΙ
- 14ΔΙΟΝΑΠΕΛΛΑΝΤΟΝ
- 15ΑΞΙΟΛΟΓΩΤΑΤΟΝΑΡ
- 16 scroll ΧΟΝΤΩΝ scroll
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Translation:
[The City (put up the statue of)] Marcus Aurelius Diogenes, the most splendid governor, distinguished, brave, decent, generous, having achieved all virtue, her benefactor; the archons (led by) the most worthy Marcus Venidius Apellas supervised the erection (of the monument).
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 I.14.
Photographs:
- Front face (1976)
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- Front face (1978)
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- Top of base (1993)
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