Sardes, Gymnasium, Inscription (1)

[θεο]ῖς πατρίοις καὶ Αὐ[τοκ]ράτορι Καίσα-
ρι Μ. Αὐρ. Ἀντωνίνῳ Εὐσεβε[ῖ Σεβαστῷ καὶ]
Αὐτοκράτορι Καίσαρι Πο. Σε〚[πτιμίῳ Γέτᾳ]〛
Σεβαστῷ καὶ Ἰουλίᾳ Σεβαστῇ μητρὶ κ[άστρων καὶ τῶν]
[Αὐτο]κρατόρων ∙ καὶ παντὶ τῷ οἴκῳ τῶν Σεβαστῶν καὶ ἱε-
[ρ]ᾷ συγκλήτῳ ∙ καὶ δήμῳ Ῥωμαίων ∙ ἡ μητρόπολις τῆς
Ἀσίας καὶ δὶς νεωκόρος τῶν Σεβαστῶν κατὰ τὰ δό-
γματα τῆς ἱερᾶς συγκλήτου φίλη καὶ σύμμαχος
[Ῥωμαίων] καὶ οἰκεία τῶν κυρίων ἡμῶν Αὐτοκ[ρατόρ]ων Σαρδιανῶν πό-
[λ]ις ∙ τὸ ἀλειπτήριον ἐκ θεμελίων σὺν παντὶ τῷ [λιθίνῳ κόσμῳ]
κατεσκεύασεν ἐπὶ ἀνθυπάτου Τ..., ἐπιτροπεύοντος τῆς Ἀσ[ία]ς Δι-
ονυσίου τ[οῦ κρατί]στου, λογιστεύ[ο]ντος τῆς πόλεως ...
[․․․․ το]ῦ κρατ[ίσ]του ἀνθυπάτου Ἑλλάδος. […]
ἐχρυσώθη δὲ τὸ ἔργον ὑπὸ τῆς πόλεως καὶ Ἀντωνί-
ας Σαβείνης ὑπατικῆς καὶ Φλαβίας Πωλλίττης ὑ[πατικῆς]
[λο]γιστεύοντος Ι. Ἀντ. Κοδράτου Ἀττάλου τοῦ κρατίστου.

To the ancestral gods, to the emperor Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Pius Augustus, to the emperor Caesar Publius Septimius Geta Augustus, and to Julia Augusta, mother of the camps and emperors, and to the imperial house, the holy Senate, and the People of the Romans.

The metropole of Asia, twice temple-guarding city of the emperors, according to the holy Senate friend and ally of the Romans, cognate of our lords the emperors, the city of Sardes, has built this gymnasium from its foundations to its decorations when ... was proconsul, when Dionysius, a man of senatorial rank, was procurator of Asia, a man of senatorial rank, , when ... was treasurer of the city, and ... was proconsul of Greece. The artworks were gilded by the city and by Antonia Sabina, a woman of senatorial rank,and Flavia Politta,, a man of senatorial rank,, when Julius Antonius Quadratus Attalus was the city's treasurer.

211 CE

SEG 36:1094 (Greek)

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