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Imperator
Caesar M. Aurelius Commodus Antoninus, Pius, Felix, Augustes, Sarmaticus,
Germanicus maximus, Britannicus, son of divus M. Antoninus, Pius, Germanicus,
Sarmaticus, grandson of divus Pius, great-grandson of divus Hadrianus,
descendant of divus Trajanus Parthicus and divus Nerva, Pontifex Maximus,
holding the tribunician power for the fourteenth time, acclaimed victorious
for the eighth time, consul for the fifth time, father of his country,
sends greetings to the Magistrates, Council and People of the Aphrodisians. |
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I
received the decree in which you asked that the proconsul of Asia should
visit your [city] and spend some days looking into [and examining] your
public affairs on the grounds that they are [quite neglected ?] and
in need of a greater reconstruction [to enable ?] the decisions of the
curator to stand confirmed. You of course [voted for these proposals
?] with the interests of the city in mind; on me, since I have been
appointed to this station, falls the necessity of preserving the cities
in the same [position of honour ? as my predecessors ? ....] visit(s)
from an official ? or proconsul [.. ? ..] and meanwhile the
rights of freedom [.. ? ..] matters, I have sent to my friend
Ulpius Marcellus ? [.. ? ..] to spend a sufficient time with
a view to [the reconstruction ?] of the common [.. ? ..] for
if this were to happen in this way and the public affairs [.. ? ..]
the rights of freedom [.. ? ..]. |
► Bibliography
Pleket & Stroud, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum,
XXXII, Amsterdam, 1982, n. 1097 ; Reynolds, Aphrodisias and
Rome, London, 1982, n. 16 ; BE 1983, 377 ; AE 1984, n. 870 ; Oliver, Greek Constitutions
of Early Roman Emperors from Inscriptions and Papyri, Philadelphia,
1989, n. 211.
► Source : Inscription discovered at Aphrodisias, Turkey, recorded in 1967.
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