Description of Monument
White marble altar (0.55 × 1.09 × 0.44) moulded at top and bottom of the front face, both mouldings badly damaged, the face chipped all along the right edge and approximately in the centre of the left.
Description of Text
Inscribed on the face; the last line cut on the lower moulding.
Letters
av. 0.025, imperfectly aligned.
Date
Probably second century B.C. (lettering).
Edition
Διῒ Φιλίωι καὶ Ὁμονοίαι καὶ
Θεᾶι Ῥώμηι οἱ δῆμοι οἵ τε
Πλαρασέων καὶ Ἀφροδισι
έων καὶ ὁ Κιβυρατῶν καὶ ὁ Τα
βηνῶν ποιησάμενοι καὶ ὅρκια
καθ' ἱερῶν νεοκαύτων καὶ σφά
για ὑπὲρ τῆς πρὸς ἀλλήλους φύσ
ει συμμαχίας καὶ ὁμονοίας
αἰωνίου καὶ ἀδελφότητος καὶ
ὑπὲρ τοῦ μηθὲν ὑπεναντίον
πράξειν μήτε Ῥωμαίοις μήτε
αὑτοῖς καὶ μήτε τινὰ γράψαι μή
τε εἰπεῖν, μήτε εἰσαγγεῖλαι μή
τε ἀναγράψαι κατὰ τῶν ἐν τοῖς
ὅρκοις ἀναγεγραμμένων
τὸν δὲ πράξαντά τι κατὰ τούτων
ἐξώλη εἶναι, καὶ αὐτόν, καὶ γενε
άν, καὶ ἔνοχον εἶναι θανάτῳ, καὶ εὐ
θύνεσθαι ὑπὸ τοῦ βουλομένου
καὶ κατὰ τὰς κοινὰς συνθήκας
ἀγαθὰ δὲ ἀλλήλοις ὅσα ἂν δυ
νατὸν ἦι συνπράξειν ἀπροφασίσ
τως καὶ τὰ συνωμολογημένα τηρ
ήσειν
Apparatus
ll. 6-7, σφάγια seems inevitable here; the accusative case is imposed by the repetition of καὶ in this sentence
l. 7, ΛΛ appear to have been cut twice, the first attempt being partially erased
ll. 7-8, φύ
σει suggested by Robert
l. 10, Υ is partially damaged and the subsequent Π written as if the cutter saw ΤΓ, but ὑπεναντίον in such contexts is so common that there can be no doubt that it was intended
l. 12, for Γ the cutter originally wrote Τ
Translation
To Zeus Philios, Concord, and Dea Roma; dedicated by the Peoples of Plarasa/Aphrodisias, of Kibyra, and of Tabae who have taken oaths over newly-burnt offerings and made blood-offerings for their natural alliance, eternal concord, and brotherhood with each other; and in order that they shall take no action in opposition either to the Romans or to each other and that no one shall draft, advocate, introduce a proposal, or record anything contrary to what has been written in the sworn agreements; and that anyone who does anything in contravention of these shall be utterly destroyed, himself and his family, liable to a capital penalty and open to prosecution by anyone who wishes and in accordance with their common agreements, and that they shall jointly promote each other's advantage in every possible way, unreservedly; and that they shall observe what has been agreed.
Commentary
See bibliography.
Locations
Unknown
Re-used in the north parodos of the Theatre Museum
Text Constituted From
Publications; Transcription (Reynolds)
History of Recording
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1969 (69.327)
Bibliography
Mentioned by R. Mellor, ΘΕΑ ΡΩΜΗ (1975), 49 f. (dedication in l. 2), whence J. and L. Robert, Bull. Ep. 1977.76 (commenting on the geographical relationship of the three cities).Mentioned by Reynolds PCPS 206, 1980, p. 70; and published as Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 1, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 179.