Antipatros of Derbe, Akmoneia and Rome in a Notebook of William Mitchell Ramsay

Year 2020, Volume: 6, 42 - 52, 15.12.2020

Marcus Chın Leah Lazar

https://doi.org/10.36991/PHILIA.202003

Abstract

This article presents new readings in a late Hellenistic honorific inscription found at Uşak, recorded by William Mitchell Ramsay in 1914. The inscription, erected by an unidentified Phrygian community, honours Antipatros of Derbe, a Lycaonian dynast known from passages in Cicero and Strabo. After presenting a revised text and translation, the authors discuss the unpublished rea-dings and explore the historical significance of this fragmentary and enigmatic inscription. They build on previous discussions of Antipatros’ role as a supra-civic intermediary between Asia Minor and Rome but also explore what this text, somewhat unusual in its first century B.C. context for its honouring of a foreign individual, can tell about the development of civic culture in Phrygia in the late Hellenistic period.

Keywords

Antipatros of Derbe, William Mitchell Ramsay, Akmoneia, Phrygia, honorific inscription

Thanks

We would especially like to thank Peter Thonemann (for initiating and supporting our study of Ramsay’s notebooks), Charles Crowther, Martin Hallmannsecker, Juliane Zachhuber, and audience members at the British Epigraphic Society Meeting in Cambridge in December 2018 for their comments and advice.

William Mitchell Ramsay’in Not Defterinde Derbeli Antipatros, Akmoneia ve Roma

Abstract

Makalede Uşak’ta bulunan ve 1914 yılında William Mitchell Ramsay tarafından kaydedilen Geç Hellenistik Dönem tarihli bir onurlandırma yazıtındaki yeni okumalar sunulmaktadır. Phrygia’da kimliği tam olarak saptanamayan bir yerleşimin sakinleri tarafından dikilen yazıt, Cicero ve Strabon’un pasajlarından bilinen Lykaonia dinastı Derbeli Antipatros’u onurlandırmaktadır. Ya-zarlar yazıtın gözden geçirilmiş metnini ve çevirisini sunduktan sonra yeni okuma önerilerini tar-tışmakta ve fragman olarak korunan bu muammalı yazıtın tarihsel önemini irdelemektedirler. An-tipatros’un Küçük Asya ve Roma arasında kentler üstü bir aracı olarak rolüne ilişkin önceki tar-tışmalara dayanarak bunları geliştiren makalede İÖ 1. yüzyıl bağlamında yabancı bir bireyi onur-landırması açısından biraz sıra dışı olan bu metnin, Geç Helenistik Dönem Frigya’sında kent kül-türünün gelişimi hakkında ne ifade edebileceği de incelenmektedir.

Keywords

Derbeli Antipatros, William Mitchell Ramsay, Akmoneia, Phrygia, onur yazıtları

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