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5. Honours for M. Aurelius Diogenes

Description | Text | Translation | Images | Commentary | Location | History


Description

  • Monument: Two adjoining fragments of a white marble statue base shaft, complete above (0.45 × 1.10 × 0.45).
  • Text: Inscribed on one face; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.
  • Letters: ll. 1-11, 0.025; ll. 12-20, 0.015. Ligatures: ΝΗΝ, l. 3; ΗΝ, l. 4; ΤΗ, ll.6, 12; ΝΗ, l.12
  • Date: AD 253-260 (content)

Text [Font help][Conventions]

  [Ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ]
  scroll δῆμος scroll
  Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον
  Διογένην πρεσ-
  βευτὴν Σεβασ-
τῶν ἀντιστρά-
  τηγον stop τὸν δίκαι-
  ον καὶ ἁγνὸν
  καὶ ἀνδρεῖον
  καὶ πάσῃ ἀρε-
10  τῇ κεκοσμη-
  scroll μένον scroll
  vacat
  προν[ο]ησαμένου τῆς
  ἀναστάσεως Ἀντω-
  νίου Νεικομάχου
15  τοῦ πατρὸς τοῦ πρώ-
  του ἄρχοντος Ἀντω-
  νίου Κλαυδίου Νει-
  κομάχου ἀρχιερέ-
  ων ἐκγόνου τοῦ ἀ-
20  scroll ξιολογωτάτου scroll

Translation

[The Council and the] People (have honoured) Marcus Aurelius Diogenes, legatus Augustorum pro praetore, he (who is) just, and decent, and brave, and adorned with every virtue; the most worthy Antonius Nicomachus, father of the first archon Antonius Claudius Nicomachus, offspring of high-priests, supervised the erection (of the monument).

Photographs

Lower part (1977) Upper part (1978) Top of base (1993) Assembled (1994)
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Commentary

See discussion at I.14; for Diogenes, see List of Governors, M. Aur. Diogenes; for Nicomachus see Local Officials, Nicomachus.

Locations

  • Found: City walls: reused in the southern stretch, section excavated in 1975.
  • Original: Unknown.
  • Last Recorded: Museum.

History

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