EPISTULA HADRIANI ASTYPALAEENSIBUS
     
Letter of Hadrian to the city of Astypalaea
  
( AD 117-118 )
 
    
( F. Hiller von Gaertringen, Inscriptiones Graecae, XII, 3, Berlin, 1898, n. 175 ).
 
 
Αὐτοκράτωρ Καῖσαρ θεοῦ Τραϊανοῦ [Παρθικοῦ] | υἱός, θεοῦ Νέρουα υἱωνός, Τραιανὸς [Ἁδριανὸς] | Σεβαστός, ἀρχιερεὺς μέγιστος, δημ[αρχικῆς] | [ἐξ]ουσίας, ὕπατος τὸ βʹ Ἀσστυπαλ[αιέων τοῖς] | [ἄρχο]υσι καὶ τῇ βουλῇ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ χαίρ[ειν]. | [καὶ πα]ρὰ τοῦ πρεσβευτοῦ ὑμῶν Πε[τρωνίου τοῦ] | [Ἡρακῶ]ντος καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ψηφίσματ[ος ὑμῶν] | [ἔμαθον] ὅπως ἥσθητε διαδεξαμέν[ου ἐμοῦ] | [τὴν πατ]ρῴαν ἀρχήν, ἐπαινέσας δ[ὲ ὑμᾶς] | [καὶ πεπο]ιθὼς(?) {γεγη]θὼς?} τὴν ἐλευθερίαν ὑ[μῶν –] | – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
 

 
►  Bibliography
 
 
Epistulis Imperatorum Magistratuumque Romanorum, Paris, 1902, n. 16 ; Abbott & Johnson, Municipal Administration in the Roman Empire, Princeton, 1926, p. 396, n. 75 ; Cagnat, Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes, IV, París, 1927, n. 1031 c ; Smallwood, Documents Illustrating the Principates of Nerva, Trajan and Hadrian, Cambridge, 1966, n. 449 a ; Lafoscade, De Martin, La documentacion griega de la cancilleria del emperador Adriano, Pamplona, 1982, n. 6 ; Oliver, Greek Constitutions of Early Roman Emperors from Inscriptions and Papyri, Philadelphia, 1989, n. 64 ; Migliorati, Cassio Dione e l'impero romano da Nerva ad Antonino Pio : alla luce dei nuovi documenti, Milano, 2003, p. 234.
 
 
►  Source : Inscription found on Astypalaea in the Aegean Sea.