TITULUS HONORARIUS
   
Honorary inscription for the proconsul Sulpicius Priscus
     
( AD 222-235 )
 
 
( J. Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome, London, 1982, n. 47 ).
  
 
ὁ δῆμος | τῆς λαμπροτάτης | Ἀφροδεισιέων | πόλεως Σουλπίκιον | Πρεῖσκον τὸν δια-|σημότατον ἀνθύ-|πατον κατὰ τὰς τοῦ | μεγίστου καὶ θειο-|τάτου κυρίου ἡμῶν | αὐτοκράτορος Σεου-|[ή]ρου Ἀλεξάνδρου | [ἐντολάς?]
 
 
English translation ( Inscriptions of Aphrodisias Project ).
  
 
The People of the most splendid city of the Aphrodisians (set up a statue of) Sulpicius Priscus, perfectissimus vir, proconsul, according to [?the instructions] of our greatest and most revered lord Imperator Severus [Alexander].
 

 
►  Bibliography
 
 
Reinach, REG, 19, 1906, p. 84 ; Abbott & Johnson, Municipal Administration in the Roman Empire, Princeton, 1926, p. 467, n. 138 ; Veyne, Mél. Piganiol, Paris, 1966, pp. 1395-1396 ; BE, 1967, 554 ; Pleket & Stroud, Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, XXXII, Amsterdam, 1982, 1097 ; Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome, London, 1982, n. 47 ; BE, 1983, 391 ; McCabe, Corpus of Aphrodisian inscriptions, 1995, n. 327.
 
 
►  Source : White marble statue base found at Aphrodisias, Turkey.