Description: Archive wall, column 5, third course, immediately above 8.99. The left side, covering one and a half blocks, is complete except for the upper right corner of the second block,
but on the right side one block is broken and partly lost and the right end is wholly lost; fragments of the lost areas have
been found fallen in front of the wall
Text:
Inscribed area w: 1.56 × h: 0.18; line 1 outspaced.
Letters: Second to third century A.D.: av. 0.018; apex in line 2; star stop at the end of 1. 5.
Date: Inscription: second to third centuries C.E. Document: A.D. 198 . (lettering, context, titulature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Theatre: north parodos wall
Original location: Theatre: north parodos
Last recorded location: Findspot; fragments in Museum
Interpretive
Αὐτοκράτορες Σεουῆρος καὶ Ἀντωνεῖνος [Ἀφρο]δ̣ε̣ι̣σ̣ι̣έ̣ω̣ν̣ τοῖ̣ς̣ ἄ̣[ρχουσι] κ̣αὶ τῇ β[ουλῇ καὶ] τῷ [δήμῳ χαίρειν ( vac.
)]
ἡσθέντας ὑμᾶς ἐπὶ τῷ τοὺς θρασυνομένους [βαρ]βάρους νενεικῆσ[θα]ι̣ καὶ πᾶσαν [τὴν οἰκου]μ[ένην ἐν εἰρήνῃ γεγενῆσ-]
θαι σφόδρα ἔπρεπεν εὐφρανθῆναι τῆς πατρῴας κοινωνίας εἰς ἐμὲ Ἀντωνεῖνον ἡκούσης [ὄντας? καλοὺς κἀγαθοὺς ἄνδρας καὶ?]
5 τῇ Ῥωμαίων ἀρχῇ μᾶλλον ἄλλων προσήκοντας διὰ τὴν προκαθημένην τῆς πόλεως ὑμ[ῶν θεόν τὴν ὑπάρχουσα]ν̣
ὑμεῖν πολειτείαν καὶ τοὺς ἐπ’ αὐτῇ νόμους τοὺς μέχρι τῆς ἡμετέρας ἀρχῆς ἀκει[ν]ήτους μεμενηκότα[ς φυλάττομεν εὐτυχ]εῖ[τε?]
Diplomatic
ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΕΣΣΕΟΥΗΡΟΣΚΑΙΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟΣ[....]........ΤΟ...[......].ΑΙΤΗΒ[.......]ΤΩ[..............]
ΗΣΘΕΝΤΑΣΥΜΑΣΕΠΙΤΩΤΟΥΣΘΡΑΣΥΝΟΜΕΝΟΥΣ[...]ΒΑΡΟΥΣΝΕΝΕΙΚΗΣ[..].ΚΑΙΠΑΣΑΝ[........]Μ[...................-]
ΘΑΙΣΦΟΔΡΑΕΠΡΕΠΕΝΕΥΦΡΑΝΘΗΝΑΙΤΗΣΠΑΤΡΩΑΣΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑΣΕΙΣΕΜΕΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟΝΗΚΟΥΣΗΣ[............................]
5ΤΗΡΩΜΑΙΩΝΑΡΧΗΜΑΛΛΟΝΑΛΛΩΝΠΡΟΣΗΚΟΝΤΑΣΔΙΑΤΗΝΠΡΟΚΑΘΗΜΕΝΗΝΤΗΣΠΟΛΕΩΣΥΜ[..................].
ΥΜΕΙΝΠΟΛΕΙΤΕΙΑΝΚΑΙΤΟΥΣΕΠΑΥΤΗΝΟΜΟΥΣΤΟΥΣΜΕΧΡΙΤΗΣΗΜΕΤΕΡΑΣΑΡΧΗΣΑΚΕΙ[.]ΗΤΟΥΣΜΕΜΕΝΗΚΟΤΑ[................]ΕΙ[..]
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 1982
The Emperors Severus and Antoninus to the [Magistrates) and the [Council and People] of the Aphrodisians, greetings.
It was most appropriate that you, who rejoiced at the conquest of the insolent barbarians and [?the establishment of peace
in] all [?the inhabited world], celebrated the coming of joint rule shared with my father to me, Antoninus, [.. ? .. for you
are ? good and noble men and] more closely related than others to the empire of the Romans because of [the goddess] who presides
over your city. Your existing polity and its laws which have survived unchanged up to our reign [we preserve. ?Farewell].
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 67.310 , 67.454, 69.310, 69.458, 69.459, 69.463, 69.469
Publication: Reynolds, 1982 18 whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1983.379 , AE 1984.872, McCabe, PHI, 1996 55 ; IAph2007 8.37.
