CILIII 7283 Caesarea Antiochia honours Hadrian

Caesarea Antiochia honours Hadrian

CIL III 7283 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, [Olympios], Caesarea Antiochia [(dedicated this statue) on account of the many] benefactions, some [private, some] [public, which he performed for the colony], [through the envoys . . . ]

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CIL III 7283 (Translated text) (EDH)

CIL III 6102

SIA VI 19 (PHI)

Højte, Statue Bases 207

Translation by: Chris de Lisle

Monument type: Base

Inscription type: Statue base (Other city)

Findspot: Library of Hadrian (Unknown)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] This statue base is part of a group erected for Emperor Hadrian (r. 117-138 AD) in the precinct of the Temple of Olympian Zeus by delegations from cities throughout the Roman Empire to celebrate Hadrian's consecration of the temple in 132 AD (see IG II² 3290 with notes). Hadrian’s titulature in ll. 1-4 confirms the date. On epigraphic evidence for Hadrian at Athens, see IG II² 5185 with notes.

The dedicator is the Roman colony of Caesarea Antiochia, established by Augustus in the province of Galatia. The community emphasises its colonial status by inscribing the text in Latin, like several other bases from the temple precinct (CIL III 7281-7282, and perhaps 7285). 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).

Added: 17 Aug 2024
Updated: 17 Aug 2024
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