Description: Archive wall, column 4, second course, below 8.32

Text: Inscribed area w: 2.01 × h: 0.22.

Letters: Second to third century A.D.; ave. 0.022; apex in line 2; diaeretic dots in lines. 1, 4, 6.

Date: Inscription: second to third centuries C.E. Document: 98 or 100 A.D. (lettering, context, titulature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre: north parodos wall

Original location: Theatre: north parodos

Last recorded location: Findspot

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1982

Imperator Caesar Trajanus to the Smyrnaeotes.

I wish no one from the free cities to be forced into (performing) your liturgy, and especially no one from Aphrodisias, since that city has been removed from the formula provinciae so that it is not liable either to the common liturgies of Asia or to others. I release Tiberius Julianos Attalos from (service to) the temple in Smyrna; (he is) a man who has the highest testimonials from his own city;

and I have written about these matters to Julius Balbus, my friend and the proconsul.

English translation

Translation source: Millar, 1977

(Lines 2-6)): I wish no one from any of the free cities to be forced to undertake a liturgy of yours, and especially no one from Aphrodisias, since the city is excepted from the framework of the province also, and therefore has no obligations either to the common liturgies of Asia or those of the other cities. I release Tiberius Julianos Attalos from (performance of a liturgy in) the temple in Smyrna, and especially because he has been testified to by his own city;

I have also written about these matters to Julius Balbus, my friend and proconsul.

Commentary

Q. Julius Balbus: PIR 199, https://pir.bbaw.de/id/7375

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