[136] Honors by Dyers for a Roman Military Official (199-250 CE)

Thyatira (Lydia, Asia Minor — Pleiades map), 199-250 CE
AGRW 136 = TAM V 935 = CIG 3497 = PHI 264365 = AGRW ID# 695
Copenhagen Inventory info: 377

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For good fortune! T. Antonius Claudius Alfenus Arignotus, the most excellent procurator of Augustus responsible for the treasury of Liviana; prefect of the second wing of Flavia Agrippiana; commander of the exclusive wing; military tribune of the first Cilician cohort; commander of the first Gaetulian cohort; procurator of the second Flaviana cohort of Numidians; commander of the second Flaviana cohort of Bessorians; quartermaster of god Antoninus and of the harbors of Seleucia Pieria; Roman equestrian of the Quirina tribe; relative of consuls; son and grandson of high-priests of Asia; cousin of Alfenus son of Apollinarios who is responsible for the census of Augustus; temple-warden of the most brilliant metropolis of Kyzikos; curator of Seleucia Pieria, of Alexandria near Issos, of Rhossos, of Trajanopolis, and of the Tropesians; performer of every kind of military service in the colonies; and, priest of the ancestral god Tyrimnos (i.e. patron deity of Thyatira). The dyers (bapheis) set this up.

Translation by: Harland

ἀγαθῇ τύχῃ. | [Τ.] Ἀντ(ώνιον) Κλ(αύδιον) Ἀλφ(ῆνον) Ἀρίγνωτον τόν | κράτιστον ἐπίτροπον τοῦ Σεβ(αστοῦ) | ἄρκης Λειβιανῆς, ἔπαρχον εἴλης || δευτέρας Φλ(αουίας) Ἀγριππιανῆς, πραιπό||σιτον εἴλης σιν<γ>λαρίων, χιλίαρχον | σπείρας πρώτης Κιλίκων, πραιπόσιτον | σπείρας πρώτης Γαιτούλων, ἔπαρχον | σπείρας δευτέρας Φλ(αουίας) Νουμίδων, πραι|πόσιτον σπείρης δευτέρας Φλ(αουίας) Βέσσων, | <ἔ>π<α>ρ<χον> ἀνν<ώ>νης θεοῦ Ἀντωνείνου | [καὶ λ]ιμένων Σελευκείας Πει<ε>ρ<ί>ας, ἱππέα Ῥω|[μ]α<ί>ων τρίβου Κυρείνα, ὑπατικῶν συγγε|νῆ, υἱὸν καὶ ἔκγονον ἀρχιερέων Ἀσίας, || ἀδελφιδοῦν Ἀλφ(ήνου) Ἀπολλιναρίου ἐπὶ κῆν|σον τοῦ Σεβ(αστοῦ), νεωκόρ<ο>ν τῆς λαμπροτά|της Κυζικηνῶν μητροπόλεως, λογι|στὴν Σελευκείας Πειερίας καὶ Ἀλεξαν|δρείας κατ Ἰσ<σὸ>ν καὶ Ῥώ<σ>σου καὶ τῆς || [τῶν] Τραιανῶν πόλεως καὶ Τροπησίων | καὶ τῆς <κ>ολωνείας ἐν πάσαις ὑπ<η>ρεσίαις <σ>τρα|τιωτικαῖς γεγονότα, τὸν ἱερέα τοῦ προ|πάτορος θεοῦ Τυρίμνου || οἱ βαφεῖς.

Item added: December 1, 2011
Item modified: October 18, 2020
ID number: 695
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Category: 3) Asia Minor, d) Lydia, f) Occupational guild (excluding those below), g) 3rd century CE, Honorary inscription, Member (or leader) of the group

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