Kyzikos (Mysia and the Troad, Asia Minor — Pleiades map), 41-54 CE
AGRW 108 =
IMT 1431
= IGR IV 144
= PHI 288709
= AGRW ID# 295
When Pausanias son of Eumenes was Hipparchos (i.e. eponymous official of Kyzikos), in the month of Kalamaion, the Council and the People (dēmos) resolved: When Demetrios was presiding, Pausanias son of Eumenes of the Aigikoreus tribe put the motion: Since Antonia Tryphaina, daughter of King Polemon and Queen Pythodoris, being pious with respect to everything toward the eternal household of the greatest of the gods, Tiberius Augustus Caesar, and his eternal rule, joined in dedicating a statue of his mother Augusta Nikephora (“Bringer of Victory”) to Athena Polias (“of the City”). And since Antonia Tryphaina has received her priesthood from the city during the tax–free Panathenaian celebrations last year, she accomplished everything for the Augusti (Sebastoi) with respect to piety towards the gods and in keeping with her character, performing many sacrifices in a distinguished manner. She treated local inhabitants and foreigners with a natural love of humanity so that the resident foreigners were amazed with favour at her piety, holiness, and love of glory. And since, even though she was away the year after, everything was being fully accomplished (10) in keeping with her piety, the traders and foreigners from all over the world who had come to the festival wanted to set up a gilded shield with an image of her. For this reason, they approached the Council and the People (dēmos) for permission to make the dedication. The Council and the People (dēmos) resolved to join with them in dedicating the shield in the temple of Polias, and to write on it: “The traders from Asia who have come to the tax–free festival, which was held in Kyzikos for the Augusti (Sebastoi) and for Athena Polias, honoured Antonia Tryphaina, daughter of King Polemon and Queen Pythodoris Philometor, priestess of Augusta Nikephora, because of her piety regarding the household of the greatest of the gods, Tiberius Augustus Caesar, and because of her dignity in every respect and her beneficence towards them.”
Translation by: HarlandItem added: November 5, 2011
Item modified: December 3, 2015
ID number: 295
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