7. Honorary decree of the Artemisias tribe for C. Veranius

Description

• Monument: left part of a plate; marble; letters painted with red colour
• Dimensions: 0.19 × 0.18 × 0.015
• Text: inscribed in tabula ansata
• Letters: 0.01 – 0.012
• Date: second – first half of third century AD
• Found: Plovdiv (Philippopolis), Dragan Manchev street
• Now: Plovdiv, Archaeological museum, inv. no. II-146
• Text Category: official, honorary

Publication

• Bibliography: G. Mihailov, Inscriptiones Graecae in Bulgaria repertae, vol. V, Serdicae, 1997, no. 5397.
• Editorial: The text was encoded following the edition of Mihailov without any additional corrections.
• Publisher: Text by N. Sharankov.

Text

Ἀγαθῇ τύ[χῃ]. Ἔδοξε τῷ κοιν̣[ῷ φυλῆς] Ἀρτεμεισιάδος [τιμῆσαι] Γάιον Οὐηράνιον [- - - προ]- εδρίᾳ καὶ εἰκόν̣[ι φυλαρχή]- 5 σαντα καὶ κο̣[σμίως διοι- vel ἐκδι]- κήσαντα. εὐ[τυχῶς].

Translation

Good luck! The council of the Artemisias tribe decreed to honour Gaius Veranius ---, who was phylarch and administered the tribe respectably (or who was phylarch and respectable legal representative of the tribe), with seat in the front row and a portrait.

На добър час! Общото събрание на филата Артемизиада реши да почете с място на първия ред и портрет Гай Вераний ---, който беше филарх и управляваше достопочтено (или беше достопочтен юридически съветник). Щастливо!

Apparatus

Ligatures: l. 2: ΩΚ; l. 4: ΗΡ.

Photographs

Commentary

Artemisias was one of the ten tribes (phylai) in Roman Philippopolis – Artemisias, Asklepias, Dionysias, Eumolpeis, Hebreis, Herakleis, Kendriseis, Orpheis, Philippeis, Rhodopeis. Inscriptions with the tribes’ names incised on the rows of the theatre in Philippopolis show that each tribe had its reserved block of seats there.

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