Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.33. Honours for the proconsul, Sulpicius Priscus

Description: A white marble statue base; no measurements..

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.035; deliberate erasure in line 11.

Date: A.D. 222/235 (reign)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, North stretch, found with 12.34, 20 metres east of the North Gate.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1904)

Interpretive

( vac. 4) ὁ δῆμος ( vac. 2)
τῆς λαμπροτάτης
( vac. 2) Ἀφροδεισιέων ( vac. 2)
πόλεως Σουλπίκιον
5 Πρεῖσκον τὸν δια-
σημότατον ἀνθύ-
πατον κατὰ τὰς τοῦ
μεγίστου καὶ θειο-
τάτου κυρίου ἡμῶν
10 αὐτοκράτορος Σεου-
[ή]ρου ⟦Ἀλεξάνδρου⟧
[ἐντολάς?]

Diplomatic

        ΟΔΗΜΟΣ    
ΤΗΣΛΑΜΠΡΟΤΑΤΗΣ
    ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΣΙΕΩΝ    
ΠΟΛΕΩΣΣΟΥΛΠΙΚΙΟΝ
5ΠΡΕΙΣΚΟΝΤΟΝΔΙΑ
ΣΗΜΟΤΑΤΟΝΑΝΘΥ
ΠΑΤΟΝΚΑΤΑΤΑΣΤΟΥ
ΜΕΓΙΣΤΟΥΚΑΙΘΕΙΟ
ΤΑΤΟΥΚΥΡΙΟΥΗΜΩΝ
10ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΟΣΣΕΟΥ
[.]ΡΟΥ⟦ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ⟧
[.......]

Apparatus

12: ?ἐντολάς Reinach, 1906; ?κρίσεις, ?ἐπιστολάς Veyne, 1966

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1982

The People of the most splendid city of the Aphrodisians (set up a statue of) Sulpicius Priscus, perfectissimus vir, proconsul, according to [?the instructions] of our greatest and most revered lord Imperator Severus [Alexander].

Commentary

Q. Virius Egnatius Sulpicius Priscus vel Q. Vibius Egnatius Sulpicius Priscus: PIR V 0477 https://pir.bbaw.de/id/14518

Bibliography

Transcription: Gaudin, 1904 161

Publication: Published by Reinach, 1906 from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 84, no. 4 , whence Abbott and Johnson, 1926 138 Veyne, 1966, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1967.554 ; Reynolds, 1982 47 , whence SEG 32.1097 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1983.391 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 327 , Smith, 2006 H.38 (listed); IAph2007 12.33.

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