13.609. Edict of Silius Italicus, proconsul

Description:
Upper part of a white marble statue base shaft (W. 0.53 x H. 0.37 x D. 0.58)
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.02-0.025
Date:
77 A.D. (prosopography)
Findspot:
Necropolis, West: lying beside a cistern about 3 km approximately westwards of Aphrodisias at a bearing of 255° on the Acropolis (1934).
Original Location:
unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1934)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the MAMA expedition in 1934; not reported subsequently.
Bibliography:
Published by Calder, CR 49, 1935, 216-217, whence BE 1938.395, Campbell, CR 50, 1936, 56-58; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 411, whence L. Robert, Hellenica 13, l4, BE 1966.384, Sokolowski, LSAM 189, no. 86, SEG 15, 660; Robert, JS 1971, 81-97; published, from all these, Reynolds, A&R 46 whence SEG 32, 1982.1097; BE 1983.391, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 75 . Discussion by D. J. Campbell, CR 50 (1936), 56 f. (on the prosopography) ; E. Bikermann, Syria 25 (1948), 83; J. and L. Robert, Bull. Ep. 1971.613 ; M. Guarducci RAL 1973, 587 f. ; J. and L. Robert, Bull. Ep. 1976. 90 (all on the doves)
Text constituted from:
Publications, MAMA squeeze (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1982).
1Τ̣ιβέριος Κάτιος Ἀ[σ]κώ̣-
2νιος Σείλιος Εἰταλικὸς
3 ἀνθύπατος λέγει κα[ὶ]
4 ψηφισμάτων ὄντων
5 καθὰ κωλύεται συνλαμ -
6β̣ά̣ν̣[ειν] τρέφειν σοβεῖν
7[·· ? ··ἐ]ν τῇ πόλει τὰς̣
8[περιστερὰ]ς τῆς τε θρησ-
9[κείας τῆς πε]ρὶ τὴν θεὸν
10 [·· ? ··]Ε̣Σ̣Θ̣Α̣Τ̣Ι̣[·· ? ··]
10α[·· ? ··]
1·ΙΒΕΡΙΟΣΚΑΤΙΟΣΑ[·]Κ·
2ΝΙΟΣΣΕΙΛΙΟΣΕΙΤΑΛΙΚΟΣ
3ΑΝΘΥΠΑΤΟΣΛΕΓΕΙΚΑ[·]
4ΨΗΦΙΣΜΑΤΩΝΟΝΤΩΝ
5ΚΑΘΑΚΩΛΥΕΤΑΙΣΥΝΛΑΜ
6···[···]ΤΡΕΦΕΙΝΣΟΒΕΙΝ
7[ - - - ·]ΝΤΗΠΟΛΕΙΤΑ·
8[·········]ΣΤΗΣΤΕΘΡΗΣ
9[··········]ΡΙΤΗΝΘΕΟΝ
10[ - - - ]······[ - - - ]
10α[ - - - ]
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περιστερὰ
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κείας
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Apparatus

l.1: [Τι]βέριος Calder, Τιβέριος MAMA, Ἀσκω Calder, Ἀσκ̣ω̣ MAMA.

l.3: κα[ὶ] Calder, Sokolowski, Robert; κα[ίπερ] MAMA.

l.7: ?[πωλεῖν Calder, [πιάζειν Sokolowski.

l.10: [·· ? ··]ΣΘΑ[Ι] Calder, [χάριν, ἀλλ᾿αἰδεῖ]σ̣θαι̣ Sokolowski, [ἀμελεῖν τινες] τ̣ολ̣[μῶσι] MAMA.

Translation:

Ti. Catius Asconius Silius Italicus, proconsul, announces: although decrees also exist by which it is forbidden to catch, keep, scare or [ . . ? . . ] the [doves] in the city and [ . . ? . . ] of the cult concerning the goddess [ . . .

Commentary:

When the site was identified in 1976 the cistern had been dismantled and its stones apparently re-used in a newly-built farmhouse, but this piece was not visible; it has presumably been broken up or re-used with the inscribed face covered. See further Aphrodisias and Rome, 173.

For the proconsul, the poet Silius Italicus, see PIR C1 0474, and W. Eck, Senatoren von Vespasian bis Hadrian (1970), 82 f.

Photographs:
none.

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