EPISTULA PROCONSULIS AD APHRODISIENSES
   
Letter on ( Aphrodisian privileges ? )
  
( AD 2nd - 3rd century )
 
 
( J. Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome, London, 1982, n. 49 ).
 
 
[·· ? ··]ξεσθαι οὐ δίκαιον δ' ἐμοὶ δοκ̣ε̣ῖ̣ π̣όλ̣ιν ὑμ̣[ετέραν·· ? ··] | [·· ? ·· ἀπὸ τῆ]ς καθηγετίδος θεᾶς̣ τὴν̣ προσων̣υ̣μ̣[ίαν ἔχουσαν ·· ? ··] | [·· ? ·· τὰ δεδομένα φιλάνθρω]πα ὑπό τε αὐτοκρατόρ[ω]ν καὶ συν̣κ̣λ̣ήτου δ̣[ή]μ̣[ου Ῥωμαίων ·· ? ··]
 
English translation ( Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Project ).
  
 
[ · · ? · · ] 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 . . . ]
 

 
►  Bibliography
 
 
Calder & Cormack, Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua, VIII, Manchester, 1962, n. 419 ; Robert Hellenica, 13, 1965, pp. 125-126 ; BE 1966, 390 ; Pleket & Stroud, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, XXXII, Amsterdam, 1982, n. 1097 ; Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome, London, 1982, n. 49 ; BE 1983, 391 ; Spicq, Lexique théologique du Nouveau Testament, Fribourg, 1985, p. 746.
 
 
►  Source : Two fragments of a white marble block found at Aphrodisias, recorded in 1934.