EPISTULA IMPERATORIS INCERTI AD PROCONSULEM SEU LEGATUM ASIAE
   
Imperial letter for recovery of money due to Aphrodisias
  
( AD 2nd century )
 
    
( J. Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome, London, 1982, n. 50 ).
 
 
[—] | [—]Ε̣ΝΟ̣[.] | [—]Α̣ΤΑΚΟ | [—]αν ὑπὲρ̣ | [—]ΕΠΩΝΕΤ̣ | [. c.6 . .]Ε̣ΔΕΕ̣[. .]Α̣Σ̣ΤΑ μετὰ | [τ]ῆ̣ς̣ σ̣οι προσηκ̣ούσης̣ ἐπι̣-|μ̣ε̣λείας ἅμα προ̣νοο̣ύμε-|νος καὶ τοῦ τὰ ὀφειλόμενα̣ | τ̣ῶν χρημάτων εἰσπράττεσ-|θ̣αι τῇ πόλει, κατεπεμψά-|μ̣η̣ν̣ δ̣έ σοι καὶ τὰς παρ’ ἡμῶν | ἐ̣ν̣[το]λ̣ὰς ἵ̣να κ̣αὶ τὴν ἡμετέ-|ραν [συ]μ̣β̣ουλ̣ὴ̣ν̣ ἐ̣ν̣ τοῖ̣ς̣ πρα-|[χθ]η̣σομένοις ἔχ[ῃ]ς̣. ἔρρωσ̣ο.
 
English translation ( Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Project ).
  
 
[ . . . ] because of? [ . . .?Aphrodi]sians [ . . . ] curat[?or . . . ] name [ . . . ] decree [ . . . ] with the care that befits you. At the same time taking thought too for the collection of the moneys that are owing to the city, I have also sent you instructions from us ?in order that you may have our advice in the matters to be managed. Farewell.
 

 
►  Bibliography
 
 
Reinach, REG, 19, 1906, pp. 83-84 ; Grégoire, Recueil des inscriptions grecques-chrétiennes d'Asie Mineure, Paris, 1922, p. 262 ; Abbott & Johnson, Municipal Administration in the Roman Empire, Princeton, 1926, p. 446, n. 120 ; Pleket & Stroud, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, XXXII, Amsterdam, 1982, n. 1097 ; Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome, London, 1982, n. 50 ; BE 1983, 391 ; Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, London, 1989, n. 189 and plate XLI.
 
 
►  Source : Two fragments from a white marble door discovered at Aphrodisias, Turkey.