EDICTUM SILII ITALICI PROCONSULIS
   
Edict of Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus concerning ( the cult of Aphrodite ? )
  
( AD 77 )
 
    
( J. Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome, London, 1982, n. 46 ).
 
 
Τ̣ιβέριος Κάτιος Ἀ[σ]κώ̣-|νιος Σείλιος Εἰταλικὸς | ἀνθύπατος λέγει κα[ὶ] | ψηφισμάτων ὄντων | καθὰ  κωλύεται  συνλαμ-|β̣ά̣ν̣[ειν] τρέφειν σοβεῖν | [·· ? ··ἐ]ν τῇ πόλει τὰς̣ | [περιστερὰ]ς τῆς τε θρησ-|[κείας τῆς πε]ρὶ τὴν θεὸν | [·· ? ··]Ε̣Σ̣Θ̣Α̣Τ̣Ι̣[·· ? ··] | [·· ? ··]
 
English translation ( Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Project ).
  
 
      Ti. Catius Asconius Silius Italicus, proconsul, announces : although decrees also exist by which it is forbidden to catch, keep, scare or [ . . ? . . ] the [doves] in the city and [ . . ? . . ] of the cult concerning the goddess [ . . .
 

 
►  Bibliography
 
 
Calder, CR, 49, 1935, pp. 216-217 ; Campbell, CR, 50, 1936, pp. 56-58 ; BE 1938, 395 ; Bikermann, Syria, 25, 1948, p. 83 ; Sokolowski, Lois sacrées de l'Asie Mineure, Paris, 1955, p. 189, n. 86 ; Calder & Cormack, Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua, VIII, Manchester, 1962, n. 411 ; BE 1966, 384 ; BE 1971, 613 ; Robert, JS, 1971, pp. 81-97 ; Guarducci, RAL, 1973, p. 587 ; BE 1976, 90 ; Pleket & Stroud, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, XXXII, Amsterdam, 1982, n. 1097 ; Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome, London, 1982, n. 46 ; BE 1983, 391.
 
 
►  Source : White marble statue base discovered at Aphrodisias, Turkey, recorded in 1934.