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Letters: Ornate apices on Φ, Χ, Ρ shown by Boeckh, presumably from Rochette, but not shown by Deering.
Date: First to second centuries CE (content)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Unknown
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1812)
Interpretive
ἡ βουλὴ καῖ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμη̣σαν καὶ
μετη̣λλαχοτα ταῖς μεγίσται̣ς̣ καὶ
καλλίσταις τείμαις Διογένην Μενάν-
δρου τοῦ Διογένους ἱερέα γενόμενον Θε-
5ᾶς Ἀφροδείτης καὶ Θεῶν Σεβαστῶν ἀμε-
ριμνίας γυμνασιαρχήσαντα καὶ στεφα-
νηφορήσαντα καὶ ἱερεύσαντα τῶν Σεβασ-
τῶν ὑπερβαλλούσαις φιλοδοξίαις καὶ
πανδήμοις ἑστιάσε[σ]ιν καὶ τὰς ἀρχὰς τε-
10λέσαντα φιλοδόξως καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ εὐσε-
βῶς [---]
Diplomatic
ΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΟΔΗΜΟΣΕΤΕΙΜ.ΣΑΝΚΑΙ
ΜΕΤ.ΛΛΑΧΟΤΑΤΑΙΣΜΕΓΙΣΤΑ..ΚΑΙ
ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΑΙΣΤΕΙΜΑΙΣΔΙΟΓΕΝΗΝΜΕΝΑΝ
ΔΡΟΥΤΟΥΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣΙΕΡΕΑΓΕΝΟΜΕΝΟΝΘΕ
5ΑΣΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΣΚΑΙΘΕΩΝΣΕΒΑΣΤΩΝΑΜΕ
ΡΙΜΝΙΑΣΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΑΡΧΗΣΑΝΤΑΚΑΙΣΤΕΦΑ
ΝΗΦΟΡΗΣΑΝΤΑΚΑΙΙΕΡΕΥΣΑΝΤΑΤΩΝΣΕΒΑΣ
ΤΩΝΥΠΕΡΒΑΛΛΟΥΣΑΙΣΦΙΛΟΔΟΞΙΑΙΣΚΑΙ
ΠΑΝΔΗΜΟΙΣΕΣΤΙΑΣΕ[.]ΙΝΚΑΙΤΑΣΑΡΧΑΣΤΕ
10ΛΕΣΑΝΤΑΦΙΛΟΔΟΞΩΣΚΑΙΤΑΛΟΙΠΑΕΥΣΕ
ΒΩΣ[---]
Apparatus
1: ΕΤΕΙΜΙΣΑΝ Rochette, 1830s; ΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΑΝ Deering, 1812
2: ΜΕΤΙΛΛΑΧΟΤΑ, ΜΕΓΙΣΤΑΤΕ Rochette, 1830s; ΜΕΤΗΛΛΑΧΟΤΑ, ΜΕΓΙΣΤΑΙΣ Deering, 1812
3-4: ΜΕΝΑ/ΝΔΡΟΥ Rochette, 1830s; ΜΕΝΑΝ/ΔΡΟΥ Deering, 1812
4: ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΓ Rochette, 1830s; ΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣ Deering, 1812
7: ΚΑΠΕΡΕΥΣΑΝΤΑ Rochette, 1830s
9: ΕΣΣΤΙΑΣΣΙΝ Rochette, 1830s; ΕΣΤΙΑΣΕΙΝ Deering, 1812
Translation
The Council and the People honoured, even after his death, with the greatest and most splendid honours Diogenes son of Menandros
the son of Diogenes. he had been priest of the goddess Aphrodite and of the Securitas of the gods, the Augusti; he (acted
as) gymnasiarch, stephanephorus and priest of the Augusti with outstanding ambition and feasts for the whole people, and carried
out the magistracies ambitiously, and the rest with piety [...]
Bibliography
Transcription: Rochette, 1830s ; Deering, 1812 (4v, no.17).
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 from Raoul-Rochette 2778, whence Liermann, 1889 11, McCabe, PHI, 1996 270 , Robert, 1966 418, note 1 (discussion of lines 5-6), Reynolds, 1980 78 (discussion), whence SEG 30.1244; IAph2007 15.261.
