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“Those Who Jointly Built the City”

Epigraphic Sources for the Urban Development of Aphrodisias
  • Angelos Chaniotis
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Sidelights on Greek Antiquity
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Abstract

Fifteen honorific inscriptions for members of the elite in Aphrodisias refer to their descent from ‘those who jointly built (συνεκτικότες, συνκτίσαντες) the city (πόλις), the fatherland (πατρίς), or the community (δῆμος)’. This honorific formula, only found in Aphrodisias, is used from the late first century BCE to the early third century CE. It refers to the material process of construction, turning Aphrodisias into an urban center, which must have taken place sometime between the mid-second and the early first centuries. It is not clear whether the ‘jointly building the city’ can be associated with the laying out of the grid that occupies the area from the theater to the stadium, or refers to the joining of a small settlement near the sanctuary of Aphrodite with other neighboring communities and their transformation into an urban center. The most plausible explanation for the action that later inscriptions describe as ‘jointly building the city’ is the organization of an epidosis, during which citizens or whole families promised to contribute amounts of money, either for general purposes or for specific buildings. Here it must have involved an extensive building plan, large sums, and the commitment of families to contribute to the building project in the future. A list of names inscribed on two orthostat blocks that today form the east wall of the Temple of Aphrodite may be the list of the men who promised to jointly build Aphrodisias.

Abstract

Fifteen honorific inscriptions for members of the elite in Aphrodisias refer to their descent from ‘those who jointly built (συνεκτικότες, συνκτίσαντες) the city (πόλις), the fatherland (πατρίς), or the community (δῆμος)’. This honorific formula, only found in Aphrodisias, is used from the late first century BCE to the early third century CE. It refers to the material process of construction, turning Aphrodisias into an urban center, which must have taken place sometime between the mid-second and the early first centuries. It is not clear whether the ‘jointly building the city’ can be associated with the laying out of the grid that occupies the area from the theater to the stadium, or refers to the joining of a small settlement near the sanctuary of Aphrodite with other neighboring communities and their transformation into an urban center. The most plausible explanation for the action that later inscriptions describe as ‘jointly building the city’ is the organization of an epidosis, during which citizens or whole families promised to contribute amounts of money, either for general purposes or for specific buildings. Here it must have involved an extensive building plan, large sums, and the commitment of families to contribute to the building project in the future. A list of names inscribed on two orthostat blocks that today form the east wall of the Temple of Aphrodite may be the list of the men who promised to jointly build Aphrodisias.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents XI
  4. List of Figures XIII
  5. Tabula Gratulatoria XIX
  6. Vasileios Petrakos: A Life Dedicated to the Service of Greek Archaeology XXIII
  7. Part I: Epigraphy and Ancient History
  8. Thucydides, Historical Geography and the ‘Lost Years’ of Perdikkas II 3
  9. Athens, Samothrace, and the Mysteria of the Samothracian Great Gods 17
  10. De quelques épitaphes d’étrangers et d’étrangères au Musée d’Érétrie 45
  11. Φυτωνυμικά τοπωνύμια Κωμών της Αργολίδος 103
  12. Le recours à l’arbitrage privé dans les actes d’affranchissement delphiques 117
  13. Προξενικό ψήφισμα από την Αιτωλία 137
  14. Women’s Religion in Hellenistic Athens 145
  15. Notes on Athenian Decrees in the Later Hellenistic Period 159
  16. “Those Who Jointly Built the City” 179
  17. Part II: Archaeology
  18. Attica and the Origins of Silver Metallurgy in the Aegean and the Carpatho-Balkan Zone 197
  19. Cultural Variation in Mycenaean Attica. A Mesoregional Approach 227
  20. Mythical and Historical Heroic Founders: The Archaeological Evidence 299
  21. Das Volutenkapitell aus Sykaminos 321
  22. Dionysos Lenaios at Rhamnous. Lenaia ἐν ἀγροῖς and the “Lenaia vases” 359
  23. Philoktet in Attika 383
  24. Part III: History of Greek Archaeology
  25. Peiraieus in 1805 411
  26. Karl Otfried Müller in Marathon, Rhamnus und Oropos 423
  27. Spyridon Marinatos and Carl Blegen at Pylos: A Happy Collaboration 441
  28. Vassilis Petrakos et les fouilles suisses d’Érétrie 451
  29. List of Contributors 465
  30. Index of Epigraphical Texts 469
  31. Index Locorum 477
  32. Index of Mythological Names 483
  33. Index of Geographic Names (Place Names, Ethnic and Demotic Adjectives) 485
  34. Index of Ancient Personal Names 499
  35. Index Rerum 505
  36. Index of Modern Personal Names 515
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699326-013

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Preface V
  3. Contents XI
  4. List of Figures XIII
  5. Tabula Gratulatoria XIX
  6. Vasileios Petrakos: A Life Dedicated to the Service of Greek Archaeology XXIII
  7. Part I: Epigraphy and Ancient History
  8. Thucydides, Historical Geography and the ‘Lost Years’ of Perdikkas II 3
  9. Athens, Samothrace, and the Mysteria of the Samothracian Great Gods 17
  10. De quelques épitaphes d’étrangers et d’étrangères au Musée d’Érétrie 45
  11. Φυτωνυμικά τοπωνύμια Κωμών της Αργολίδος 103
  12. Le recours à l’arbitrage privé dans les actes d’affranchissement delphiques 117
  13. Προξενικό ψήφισμα από την Αιτωλία 137
  14. Women’s Religion in Hellenistic Athens 145
  15. Notes on Athenian Decrees in the Later Hellenistic Period 159
  16. “Those Who Jointly Built the City” 179
  17. Part II: Archaeology
  18. Attica and the Origins of Silver Metallurgy in the Aegean and the Carpatho-Balkan Zone 197
  19. Cultural Variation in Mycenaean Attica. A Mesoregional Approach 227
  20. Mythical and Historical Heroic Founders: The Archaeological Evidence 299
  21. Das Volutenkapitell aus Sykaminos 321
  22. Dionysos Lenaios at Rhamnous. Lenaia ἐν ἀγροῖς and the “Lenaia vases” 359
  23. Philoktet in Attika 383
  24. Part III: History of Greek Archaeology
  25. Peiraieus in 1805 411
  26. Karl Otfried Müller in Marathon, Rhamnus und Oropos 423
  27. Spyridon Marinatos and Carl Blegen at Pylos: A Happy Collaboration 441
  28. Vassilis Petrakos et les fouilles suisses d’Érétrie 451
  29. List of Contributors 465
  30. Index of Epigraphical Texts 469
  31. Index Locorum 477
  32. Index of Mythological Names 483
  33. Index of Geographic Names (Place Names, Ethnic and Demotic Adjectives) 485
  34. Index of Ancient Personal Names 499
  35. Index Rerum 505
  36. Index of Modern Personal Names 515
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