Letter from a proconsul to Aphrodisias
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source date: Second to third centuries CE
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[...]ξεσθαι οὐ δίκαιον δ' ἐμοὶ δοκεῖ πόλιν ὑμετέραν [...] [...] ἀπὸ τῆς καθηγετίδος θεᾶς τὴν προσωνυμίαν ἔχουσαν [...] [...] τὰ δεδομένα φιλάνθρωπα ὑπό τε αὐτοκρατόρων καὶ συνκλήτου δήμου Ῥωμαίων [...]

[^a1: at 2: ΤΗΝ or ΤΗΜ, ΠΡΟΣΛ . . Υ[ | ἀπὸ τῆ]ς κτλ. τὴν προσω̣[ν]υ[μίαν ἔχουσαν [in fact Ω is certain, followed by three uprights, and there are traces of Μ at the end.]]

[^a2: at 3: - - πα, συ[νκλ]ήτου Λ - | τὰ δεδομένα φιλάνθρω]πα, συν[κλή]του δ[ογμάτων [; the stone has deteriorated since 1934, but the surviving traces suggest the text as above, for there seems to be no room for two letters between Δ̣ and Μ̣.]]

[...] to [? ] but to me it seems unjust that your city [ . .? . . ]. deriving its name from the goddess who leads it [ . . ? . . ] the privileges given by emperors and the Senate of the Roman [people . . . ]

[...]; [...] in 1975

[...] 419 , whence [...] 125-126, [...] 1966.390 ; [...] 49 , whence [...] 32.1097 ; [...] 1983.391 , [...] 67 ; [...] 12.911.