Description: Two originally adjacent white marble
blocks (a, w: 1.11, b, w: 1.32;
both h: 0.77; no depth measurable).
Text:
Inscribed on the face of the two blocks: block b shows no space at the end of the lines, and the language of line 6 suggest
that the text was
laid out on three blocks.
Letters: 0.0175-0.025
Date: Early second century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls, East stretch (north part): in the east facing stretch north of the Museum, near
12.203,
12.212. The two blocks are built into the wall at a distance of c. 24 m from each other; both face out.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot
Interpretive
ἔδοξεν τῇ βουλῇ κ | α̣ὶ τῷ δήμῳ γνώμη ἀρχόντων καὶ Ὑψικλέους [τ]οῦ̣ Ὑ̣[ψικλέ-]
ους τοῦ Μενάνδρου γ | ραμματέως δήμου καὶ Μενίππου τοῦ Τειμοκλέους τοῦ Π̣[ο-]
λεμάρχου τοῦ ἐπὶ τῆς χ | ώρας στρατηγοῦ ἐπεὶ Τίτος Ἀντώνιος Ἀδράστου υἱὸς Κυρε[ί-]
να Λυσίμαχος Γρύπος ἀ̣ | νὴρ τῆς πρώτης τάξεως καὶ γένους πολλὰ καὶ μεγάλα ἐν πᾶσ[ι]
5 παρεσχημένου τῇ πατ | ρ̣ί̣δι καὶ αὐτὸς ἀπὸ πρώτης ἡλικίας νεικήσας πάντας ἠθῶν τε σε̣-
μνότητι καὶ ἐναρέτου β̣ | ί̣ου ἀγωγῇ καὶ καθ' ἑαυτὸν κατὰ ἔργα κοσμήσας τὴν τοῦ γένους | [δόξαν]
καὶ ἐν αἷς ἐτέλεσεν ἀρχα | [ῖ]ς καὶ ὑπηρεσίαις καὶ πρεσβείαις καὶ ἀγορανομίαις πολυτελέσιν̣
καὶ ἐπιδόσεσιν καὶ λιτο | υ̣ργίαις μεγαλοψύχοις καὶ ἀρχιερωσύνῃ πολυτελεστάτῃ τὰ
νῦν μετήλλακχεν ὁ | [δ]ὲ δῆμος ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τῷ γεγονότι ἀχθεσθεὶς ἐπηνέχθη τειμῆ-
10σαι τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ μετη | [λ]λακχότα ταῖς τειμαῖς καὶ στεφανῶσαι αὐτὸν τῷ τῆς ἀρ | [ε-]
τῆς στεφάνῳ παραμυθήσασ | θαι δὲ κ̣αὶ Ἀντωνίαν Νεικοτείμου θυγατέρα Τατίαν τὴν μητέρα αὐτο | [ῦ]
δεδόχθαι τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ | δήμῳ τετειμῆσθαι καὶ μετηλλακχότα Ἀντώνιον Λυσίμαχον ἄν-
δρα πάσης ἄξιον τειμῆς τα | [ῖ]ς καλλίσταις τειμαῖς ἐστεφανῶσθαι δὲ αὐτὸν κατὰ
ἀρετῆς στεφάνῳ παρηγορῆ̣ | σθαι δὲ καὶ Ἀντωνίαν Νεικοτείμου θυγατέρα Τατίαν τὴν μητέ̣-
15ρα αὐτοῦ εὐθαρσῶς τὸ σ | υνβεβηκὸς ὑπὸ τοῦ δαίμονος ἐνεν[κε]ῖν ((leaf)) ( vac. )
Diplomatic
ΕΔΟΞΕΝΤΗΒΟΥΛΗΚ | .ΙΤΩΔΗΜΩΓΝΩΜΗΑΡΧΟΝΤΩΝΚΑΙΥΨΙΚΛΕΟΥΣ[.]Ο..[.....-]
ΟΥΣΤΟΥΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥΓ | ΡΑΜΜΑΤΕΩΣΔΗΜΟΥΚΑΙΜΕΝΙΠΠΟΥΤΟΥΤΕΙΜΟΚΛΕΟΥΣΤΟΥ.[.-]
ΛΕΜΑΡΧΟΥΤΟΥΕΠΙΤΗΣΧ | ΩΡΑΣΣΤΡΑΤΗΓΟΥΕΠΕΙΤΙΤΟΣΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΣΑΔΡΑΣΤΟΥΥΙΟΣΚΥΡΕ[.-]
ΝΑΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΣΓΡΥΠΟΣ. | ΝΗΡΤΗΣΠΡΩΤΗΣΤΑΞΕΩΣΚΑΙΓΕΝΟΥΣΠΟΛΛΑΚΑΙΜΕΓΑΛΑΕΝΠΑΣ[.]
5ΠΑΡΕΣΧΗΜΕΝΟΥΤΗΠΑΤ | ..ΔΙΚΑΙΑΥΤΟΣΑΠΟΠΡΩΤΗΣΗΛΙΚΙΑΣΝΕΙΚΗΣΑΣΠΑΝΤΑΣΗΘΩΝΤΕΣ.
ΜΝΟΤΗΤΙΚΑΙΕΝΑΡΕΤΟΥ. | .ΟΥΑΓΩΓΗΚΑΙΚΑΘΕΑΥΤΟΝΚΑΤΑΕΡΓΑΚΟΣΜΗΣΑΣΤΗΝΤΟΥΓΕΝΟΥΣ | [.....]
ΚΑΙΕΝΑΙΣΕΤΕΛΕΣΕΝΑΡΧΑ | [.]ΣΚΑΙΥΠΗΡΕΣΙΑΙΣΚΑΙΠΡΕΣΒΕΙΑΙΣΚΑΙΑΓΟΡΑΝΟΜΙΑΙΣΠΟΛΥΤΕΛΕΣΙ.
ΚΑΙΕΠΙΔΟΣΕΣΙΝΚΑΙΛΙΤΟ | .ΡΓΙΑΙΣΜΕΓΑΛΟΨΥΧΟΙΣΚΑΙΑΡΧΙΕΡΩΣΥΝΗΠΟΛΥΤΕΛΕΣΤΑΤΗΤΑ
ΝΥΝΜΕΤΗΛΛΑΚΧΕΝΟ | [.]ΕΔΗΜΟΣΗΜΩΝΕΠΙΤΩΓΕΓΟΝΟΤΙΑΧΘΕΣΘΕΙΣΕΠΗΝΕΧΘΗΤΕΙΜΗ
10ΣΑΙΤΟΝΑΝΔΡΑΚΑΙΜΕΤΗ | [.]ΛΑΚΧΟΤΑΤΑΙΣΤΕΙΜΑΙΣΚΑΙΣΤΕΦΑΝΩΣΑΙΑΥΤΟΝΤΩΤΗΣΑΡ | [.-]
ΤΗΣΣΤΕΦΑΝΩΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΗΣΑΣ | ΘΑΙΔΕ.ΑΙΑΝΤΩΝΙΑΝΝΕΙΚΟΤΕΙΜΟΥΘΥΓΑΤΕΡΑΤΑΤΙΑΝΤΗΝΜΗΤΕΡΑΑΥΤΟ | [.]
ΔΕΔΟΧΘΑΙΤΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΤΩ | ΔΗΜΩΤΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΘΑΙΚΑΙΜΕΤΗΛΛΑΚΧΟΤΑΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΝΛΥΣΙΜΑΧΟΝΑΝ
ΔΡΑΠΑΣΗΣΑΞΙΟΝΤΕΙΜΗΣΤΑ | [.]ΣΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΑΙΣΤΕΙΜΑΙΣΕΣΤΕΦΑΝΩΣΘΑΙΔΕΑΥΤΟΝΚΑΤΑ
ΑΡΕΤΗΣΣΤΕΦΑΝΩΠΑΡΗΓΟΡ. | ΣΘΑΙΔΕΚΑΙΑΝΤΩΝΙΑΝΝΕΙΚΟΤΕΙΜΟΥΘΥΓΑΤΕΡΑΤΑΤΙΑΝΤΗΝΜΗΤ.
15ΡΑΑΥΤΟΥΕΥΘΑΡΣΩΣΤΟΣ | ΥΝΒΕΒΗΚΟΣΥΠΟΤΟΥΔΑΙΜΟΝΟΣΕΝΕΝ[..]ΙΝ ❦
Apparatus
5-6: τε-/σε̣μνότητι IAph2007
6: The text must have continued onto a third block to the left
11: ΓΑΙ
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
Decision of the Council and the People, proposal of the magistrates and of Hypsikles the son of Hypsikles the son of Menander,
secretary of the People, and of Menippos son of Teimokles the son of Polemarchos, the general for the countryside: since Titus
Antonius Lysimachos Grypos, son of Adrastos, of the (scil. Roman) tribe Quirina, a man of the first rank and descent, has now died, who among all had given his native land many considerable
gifts, and himself from first youth had outdone all by the dignity of his manners, and by the conduct of a virtuous life and
by his own deeds added to the [reputation] of his family as also in his lavish fulfilment of magistracies and public services
and embassies and regulation of the market and generous gifts and liturgies, and in a very lavish tenure of the high priesthood;
and our People in grief at the event was impelled to honour the man also/even after his death woth appropriate honours and
to crown him with the crown of Virtue, and also to offer consolation to Antonia Tatia, daughter of Neikoteimos, his mother:
the decision of the Council and the People was to honour Antonius Lysimachos also after his death, a man deserving of all
honour, with the finest honours, and to crown him as he deserved with a crown, and also to offer consolation to Antonia Tatia,
daughter of Neikoteimos, his mother, urging her to bear what has been brought about by the divinity with courage.
Bibliography
Transcription: Picenini, 1705 (b only) 19v-20, and, from Tisser, 62v-63, whence Sherard, 1705 30-31; Falkener, 1844 (a and b); Waddington, 1850 (a only); Reichel, 1893 R.I.14v (sketch); Gaudin, 1904 177 (b only); Calder, 1934; New York University expedition
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2767 (b only) ; Henzen, 1852 1 ; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870, 1604 , with Buresch, 1894 430-31, A. Wilhelm, Beiträge, 315; Reinach, 1906 15 (mention) ; MAMA 8 408 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 12 ; IAph2007 12.207.
