| TITLE Procession of Termessos Minor |
| DATE |
| TEXT SEG 44, 1187 (see also: SEG 44, 1186). Edition of Hall and Milner 1994, 34. [1] [Τ]ερμησσέων τῶν πρ[ὸς] [2] Οἰνοάνδοις ἡ βουλὴ καὶ [ὁ] [3] δῆμος καὶ ἡ γερουσία ἐτε[ί]- [4] μησεν εἰκόνι χαλκῇ τὴν [5] ἀξιολογωτάτην Μαρκί- [6] αν Αὐρηλίαν Πολύκλειαν [7] Μόλητος Μαυσώλου Μόλητος, [8] γυναῖκα τοῦ ἀξιολογωτάτου [9] Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀρτέμωνος [10] β´ Ἀπολλωνίου, μεγαλαφροσύ- [11] νῃ διαπρέπουσαν, δωρησαμέ- [12] νην καὶ συστησαμένην μετὰ τοῦ [13] ἀνδρὸς εἰς τὸν πάντα χρόνον [14] καὶ αἰῶνα ἐξ οἰκείας φιλο- [15] τειμίας ἀγῶνας θυμελικόν [16] καὶ γυμνικὸν ἔκ τε Λυκίων πάν- [17] των καὶ τῆς ἀνέκαθεν συνγενί- [18] δος ὐπαρχούσης Τερμησσέων [19] τῆς Πανφυλίας, καὶ τῆς Καισα- [20] ρέων Κιβυρατῶν τῆς Ἀσίας, [21] τῶν λαμπροτάτων πόλεων, [22] ἀνδριάντων καὶ θεμάτων [23] ἆθλα θεμένην, ὁρίσασαν ἐν [24] τῷ χρόνῳ τῆς πανηγύρεως [25] διανομῆς τοῖς μὲν πεντακο- [26] σίοις ἀνὰ (δηνάρια) δέκα, τοῖς δὲ δημό- [27] ταις ἀνὰ (δηνάρια) δύο, καὶ σεβαστο- [28] φόροις διενεκεῖσι καὶ ἰδίᾳ τοῖς [29] ἑξῆς αἱρουμένοις πρὸς ἡμέρας [30] τρεῖς σεβαστοφόροις καὶ μαστει- [31] γοφόροις ἑκάστῳ ἡμερήσιον [32] (δηνάρια) ἕν, εὐνοίας χάριν ἀμει- [33] ψαμένη. (vac) |
| TRANSLATION Hall and Milner 1994, 34. The boule, demos and gerousia of the Termessians at Oenoanda honoured with a bronze statue the Most Honourable Marcia Aurelia Polykleia, daughter of Moles, son of Mausolos, son of Moles and wife of the Most Honourable Marcus Aurelius Artemon, son of Artemon, son of Apollonios, distinguished for her generosity, having made a gift and founded with her husband for all time from her own munificence contests both musical and athletic of all Lycians and the longstanding ancestral kin Termessus in Pamphylia, and Caesarea Cibyra in Asia, most splendid cities, having put up prizes of statues and cash, and having defined in the time of the festival on account of bounties for the ‘Five hundred’ 10d. each, for ordinary citizens 2d. each, and for the perpetual sebastophoroi and the sebastophoroi individually appointed successively for three days and the mastigophoroi 1d. a day each, – for the sake of her benevolence, in reward. |
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