Image: Copy inscribed in marble of a letter from Antoninus Pius to the Ephesians, from the Bouleuterion at Ephesus, 140-144 AD, British Museum (16965588461)

Description: The emperor resolves a dispute between the cities of Ephesus and Smyrna. Inscription 489 Inscription Translation The Emperor Caesar, son of the deified Hadrian, grandson of the deified Trajan, conqueror of Parthia, descendant from the deified Nerva, Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus, Pontifex Maximus, Tribune of the people for the....time, Imperator for the .... time, Consul for the third time, Father of his country, to the Magistrates of the Ephesians, and to the Council, and the People, greeting. In my letters to you I expressed my satisfaction that the people of Pergamus had adopted the names which I had driected your city to use. I think, moreover, that the people of Smyrna have by accident passed over these in their decree concerning the joint sacrifice, and that for the future they will show their right feeling by their deliberate adoption of them, if you also in your letters to them shall always have made mention of their city in the manner that is becoming and has been decided. This decree is sent by Sulpicius Julianus, my Procurator. Farewell. This decree was drawn up by Publius Vedius Antoninus acting as scribe. Source: www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collecti...
Title: Copy inscribed in marble of a letter from Antoninus Pius to the Ephesians, from the Bouleuterion at Ephesus, 140-144 AD, British Museum (16965588461)
Credit: Copy inscribed in marble of a letter from Antoninus Pius to the Ephesians, from the Bouleuterion at Ephesus, 140-144 AD, British Museum
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