1. Honorary Inscription for Marcus Aurelius

Description

• Monument: statue base, moulded on top and bottom; limestone
• Dimensions: 1.76 × 0.55 × 0.53
• Text: on the front
• Letters: 0.055 (l. 1) to 0.035 cm (l. 2-11); smaller omicron
• Date: 175-180 AD (emperor’s names)
• Found: Gostilica (Discoduraterae, territory of Augusta Traiana)
• Now: last seen in Gostilica
• Text Category: official, honorary

Publication

• Bibliography: Georgius Mihailov, Inscriptiones Graecae in Bulgaria Repertae, vol. II, Serdicae, 1958, no. 727 = vol. V, 1997, no. 5253.
• Editorial: The text was encoded following the edition of Mihailov with corrections by N. Sharankov.
• Publisher: Text by Nikolay Sharankov, encoded for the Telamon Project by Dimitar Iliev.

Text

Ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ.
Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον Ἀν-
τωνεῖνον αὐτοκράτο-
ρα Γερμανικὸν Σαρματι-
κὸν Μηδικὸν Παρθι-
κὸν ἡ πόλις ἡ Τραιαν-
έων τὸν αὑτῆς κτίστ-
ην ἐν τῷ ἐνπορίῳ ἐν Δισ-
κοδουρατέραις, ἡγεμο-
νεύοντος τῆς ἐπαρχίας
Ἀσελ[λ]ί̣ο̣υ ̣Α̣ἰ̣μ̣[ι]λ̣[ια]ν̣οῦ̣

Translation

Good fortune. The city of Traiana [set up a statue] of its founder, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Imperator Germanicus Sarmaticus Medicus Parthicus, in its emporium Discoduraterae, under the governor of the province Asellius Aemilianus.

На добър час! Градът на траянците [издигна статуя] на своя основател император Марк Аврелий Антонин, Германски, Сарматски, Мидийски, Партски в тържището в Дискодуратера, когато управител на провинцията беше Азелий Емилиан.

Apparatus

Ligatures: l. 3: ΑΥ; l. 7: ΑΥ, ΗΣ; l. 8: ΗΝΕ, ΝΤ, ΩΕ, ΝΠ, ΩΕ; l. 9: ΤΕ, ΗΓ; l. 10: ΝΕ, ΝΤ, ΗΣ
l. 11: supplied by N. Sharankov according to the suggestion of G. Mihailov about the name and the traces of letters on the stone.

Photographs

Commentary

See Д. П. Димитров, Към историята на Августа-Траяна (Zur Geschichte der Stadt Augusta-Traiana). – Bulletin de la Société Historique à Sofia, 11-12 (1931-1932), p. 54-70.

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