SIAVI 22 Philippi honours Hadrian?

Philippi honours Hadrian?

SIA VI 22 Date: 132 AD?

Latin text [To Emperor Caesar, son of the God Trajan] [Parthicus, grandson of the God Nerva], [Trajan Hadrian Augustus, pontifex maximus], [tribunician power 16 times (132 AD), consul 3 times, father of the fatherland], [Olympius . . . ] (1)[the colony (colonia) Julia of the] Philippians through the envoys Afranius (?) . . . , -ius Gratianus . . . Greek text [Of the Philippians]

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SIA VI 22 (Translated text) (PHI)

CIL III 7285 (EDH)

CIL III 6105

Translation by: Chris de Lisle

Monument type: Fragment

Inscription type: Statue Base (Other city)?

Findspot: Acropolis (EM)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This fragmentary inscription mentioning the Roman colony of Philippi, which was established by Augustus in the province of Macedonia, appears to be part of a set of statue bases erected for Emperor Hadrian (r. 117-138 AD) in the precinct of the Temple of Olympian Zeus by delegations from cities throughout the eastern Roman Empire to celebrate Hadrian's consecration of the temple in 132 AD (see IG II² 3290 with notes). In that case, the community is one of several to emphasise its colonial status by inscribing the text in Latin (cf. CIL III 7281-7283). These are probably the set of statues that Pausanias 1.18.6 says stood in front of the columns of the temple and were known as "colony cities" (apoikoi poleis). There may originally have been ten of them, one for each column of the front façade, perhaps limited to the colonies which held the prestigious privilege of the "Latin right" (ius Italicum). They may have inspired other cities of the East to erect the other non-Latin statue bases in the precinct (F. Camia, A. Corcella, and M. Monaco in What's New in Roman Greece, 2018, 477-483). On epigraphic evidence for Hadrian at Athens, see IG II² 5185 with notes.

Added: 17 Aug 2024
Updated: 17 Aug 2024
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