12.1019. Posthumous honours for Tiberius Cl(audius) Antonius [Am]mianos
- Description:
- White marble statue base whose face has been cut down for re-use, from a width of W. 0.66 at the back, to W. 0. 44 or a little less across the face (measurable H. 0.92, D. 0.60); there is a simple moulding below. The face is very worn.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face. The upper edge is complete; the text may have begun on an upper feature.
- Letters:
- 0.035-0.04
- Date:
- Middle to later second century A.D. (lettering and prosopography)
- Findspot:
- Walls, West Gate: re-used, upside down, in the southern pier.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Fellows; by Kubitschek (KIII.3b. Abklatsch 114); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Fellows, Acct. 359, no. 66 whence CIG 2781c (p. 1112); by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 496, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 292.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Beard, Reynolds); MAMA squeeze; publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 0 [?ἡ βουλὴ καὶ]
- 1 v. ὁ δῆμ̣[ος v. ]
- 2[Τι]βέριον Κλ[αύδιον]
- 3[Ἀ]ν̣τώνιον Δ[?ιογένην]-
- 4[Ἀ]μ̣μιανὸν stop υ[ἱὸν v. ]
- 5[Τι]βερίου Κλα[υδίου]
- 6[Ἀ]ντωνίου Δο[?μετι]-
- 7[ v. ] leaf stop νοῦ Ἑρμίο̣[?υ]
- 0[···········]
- 1 ΟΔΗ·[·· ·]
- 2[··]ΒΕΡΙΟΝΚΛ[······]
- 3[·]·ΤΩΝΙΟΝΔ[·······]
- 4[·]·ΜΙΑΝΟΝ stop Υ[··· ·]
- 5[··]ΒΕΡΙΟΥΚΛΑ[·····]
- 6[·]ΝΤΩΝΙΟΥΔΟ[····]
- 7[·] leaf stop ΝΟΥΕΡΜΙ·[·]
Apparatus
Fellows had considerable difficulty in reading this stone, which was more easily understood from a squeeze, before the clearing of the West Gate in 2002
.ll.4-5: Cormack read an upright at the beginning of l.5 and so restored Δ[ο|κ]ιμιανὸν. and, in ll.6-7 Δο[κιμια]νοῦ; but there is no parallel to support this conjecture. We do not read the upright on the squeeze. l. 7 Cormack proposed Ἕρμιο[ν], a further name for the son; but the accusative would probably be written with an alpha
Translation:
[? The Council and] the People (honoured) [Ti]berius Cl[audius A]ntonius D[iogenes? ?Am]mianos [son of] [Ti]berius Cla[udius A]ntonius Do[meti]nos Hermias.
Commentary:
For the absence of a verb, compare e.g. (unpublished) (=MAMA 451), 12.642 (=452), (11.62 (=453).
Photographs:
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