Description: Archive wall, column 5, on the third and fourth courses, immediately below 8.37. The left-hand part is cut on one and a half blocks which are intact, the right-hand part shows increasing damage and the
right end is almost wholly lost except for a few small fragments found fallen.
Text: lnscribed area in situ, w: 1.56 × h: 0.145; line 1 outspaced.
Letters: Second to third centuries C.E.: line 1, 0.018, line 2, 0. 02, lines 3 ff., av. 0.018;diaeresis in line 5; bar above the figure
in 1.2.
Date: 224 C.E. (titulature, lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Theatre: north parodos wall, and fragments found fallen
Original location: Theatre: north parodos
Last recorded location: Findspot; fragments in Museum
Interpretive
Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ θεοῦ Σεουήρου Εὐσεβοῦς ἔκγονος [θε]οῦ Ἀντωνείνου Εὐσεβοῦς μεγί[στου υἱό]ς̣ Μᾶρκος Αὐρή[λιος Σεου]ῆ̣ρ̣ο̣ς̣ [Ἀλέξανδ]ρος
Εὐσεβὴς Εὐτυχὴς Σεβαστός ἀρχιερεὺς μέγιστος δημαρχικῆς ἐξουσίας τὸ γ ((stop)) ὕπα[τος πατὴρ πα]τρίδ[ος Ἀφροδεισιέων τοῖς ἄρχουσι?]
καὶ τῷ δήμῳ χαίρειν ( vac. 1) Τὸ μὲν παρελέσθαι τι τῶν ὑπαρξάντων τῇ πόλει δικαίων ἀλλ[ότριόν ἐστι? τῆς? ἐν τῇ] ἀρχῇ [τῇ ἐμῇ περὶ πάντας?]
κηδεμονίας τὸ δὲ κατὰ ταὐτὰ γενέσθαι τὴν περὶ τῆς παρούσης ἀξιώσεως [c. 21]Ε̣Ε̣Ε̣[c. 14 λό-]
5γον ἔχει τὸν προσήκοντα ἀκροάσεται δὴ ὑμῶν ἴσον καὶ κοινὸν ἑαυτὸν καθ[ιστὰς? κρι?]τήν [ἐπρέσβευεν? c. 13 εὐτυχεῖτε]
Diplomatic
ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΩΡΚΑΙΣΑΡΘΕΟΥΣΕΟΥΗΡΟΥΕΥΣΕΒΟΥΣΕΚΓΟΝΟΣ[..]ΟΥΑΝΤΩΝΕΙΝΟΥΕΥΣΕΒΟΥΣΜΕΓΙ[.......].ΜΑΡΚΟΣΑΥΡΗ[........]....[.......]ΡΟΣ
ΕΥΣΕΒΗΣΕΥΤΥΧΗΣΣΕΒΑΣΤΟΣΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΣΔΗΜΑΡΧΙΚΗΣΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΣΤΟΓ • ΥΠΑ[..........]ΤΡΙΔ[.........................]
ΚΑΙΤΩΔΗΜΩΧΑΙΡΕΙΝ ΤΟΜΕΝΠΑΡΕΛΕΣΘΑΙΤΙΤΩΝΥΠΑΡΞΑΝΤΩΝΤΗΠΟΛΕΙΔΙΚΑΙΩΝΑΛΛ[.................]ΑΡΧΗ[...............]
ΚΗΔΕΜΟΝΙΑΣΤΟΔΕΚΑΤΑΤΑΥΤΑΓΕΝΕΣΘΑΙΤΗΝΠΕΡΙΤΗΣΠΑΡΟΥΣΗΣΑΞΙΩΣΕΩΣ[·····················]...[··············..-]
5ΓΟΝΕΧΕΙΤΟΝΠΡΟΣΗΚΟΝΤΑΑΚΡΟΑΣΕΤΑΙΔΗΥΜΩΝΙΣΟΝΚΑΙΚΟΙΝΟΝΕΑΥΤΟΝΚΑΘ[........]ΤΗΝ[..........·············.........]
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 1982
Translation
Imperator Caesar M. Aure[lius Severus [Alexan]der, Pius, Felix, Augustus, [son] of divus Antoninus, Pius, Maximus, grandson
of divus Severus, Pius, Pontifex Maximus, holding the tribunician power for the third time, consul, [father] of his country,
[to the Magistrates] and People of the Aphrodisians, greetings.
To take away anything from the rights belonging to the city is foreign to the guardianship [extended to all in my] reign,
but to bring under the same principle the [.. ? ..] in the matter of the present petition [.. ? ..] has the appropriate ?reputation
(?value); he will listen, [offering] himself as your fair [?judge] and open to all. [.. ? .. was ambassador. Farewell].
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 67.454, 67.457, 67.459 and unnumbered items.
Publication: Reynolds, 1982 19 whence SEG 32.1097 , BE 1983.380 ; AE 1984.873 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 56 ,; IAph2007 8.99.
