EPISTULA LUCII CORNELII SCIPIONIS FRATRISQUE AD COLOPHONIOS
   
Letter of L. and P. Cornelius Scipio on the inviolability of the temple
     
( 190-189 BC )
 
 
( P. Roussel in Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, I, Leiden, 1923, n. 440 ).
  
 
[παρὰ Ῥωμαίων. Λ]εύκιος Κ̣[ορνήλιος Πο]-|[πλίου στρατηγὸ]ς ὕπατος Ῥωμαίων καὶ [Πό]-|[πλιος Κορνήλιος] ἀδελφὸς Κολοφονίων τῆ[ι] | [βουλῆι καὶ τῶι δή]μωι χαίρειν· ἐνέτυχο[ν] | [ἡμῖν οἱ παρ’ ὑμ]ῶν πρέσβεις Ἀγαμήδης καὶ | [——— ἄνδρε]ς καλοὶ κἀγαθοί, <οἳ> τό τε | [ψήφισμα ἀπέδω]καν καὶ αὐτοὶ διελέγη-|[σαν ἀκολούθ]ως τοῖς ὑφ’ ὑμῶν δεδογμέ-|[νοις, οὐδὲν ἐλ]λείποντες φιλοτιμίας καὶ | [... c.11 .... εἶ]ν̣αι(?) τὸ ἱερὸν ἄσυ-|[λον ———]
 

 
►  Bibliography
 
 
Picard, Ephèse et Claros, Paris, 1922, p. 145, n. 5 ; Roussel in Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, I, Leiden, 1923, n. 440 ; Holleaux, Rivista di filologia, 52, 1924, pp. 29-44 ; AE, 1925, n. 107 ; Calder & Keil, Anatolian studies presented to William Hepburn Buckler, Manchester, 1939, p. 171 ; Magie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor, II, Princeton, 1950, p. 949, n. 58 ; Ceruti, Epigraphica, 17, 1955, p. 125 ; Sherk, Roman Documents from the Greek East, Baltimore, 1969, pp. 219-220, n. 36 ; Sherwin-White, Ancient Cos : An historical study from the Dorian settlement to the imperial period, Göttingen, 1978, p. 222 ; Yarrow, Historiography at the end of the Republic : provincial perspectives on Roman rule, Oxford, 2006, p. 253.

  
►  Source : Inscription found near Ahmetbeyli, Turkey.