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460 XL APAMEIA.
from the Apamean state,, and had to pay for their right*, considering that
the Jews before a.d. 70 had the right to choose their* own archons and
administer their internal affairs by their own laws, in spite of the strong
desire of the cities to take the right away from them2.
What then does the inscription mean ? It appears to me that the
meaning, which the Greek words conveyed to me when I first read them,
is the correct one. The five Romans hold a Greek office (ipgavres), as
the supreme board of magistrates (p. 441) in the city; and they mark
the fact, that for the first time 3 in the history of the city the whole board
has been composed of Romans, by this dedication to the Demos, amid
which they hold office. Only in this way does it seem possible to
account for a board of five Roman officials using Greek forms and
language. The inscription marks an interesting period in the romaniza-
tion of a Phrygian city.
Schulten, in his excellent treatise cle c.onventibus G. R. p. 32, inclines
to this view of this difficult inscr. The only difficulty is that the
Apamean Italians are not found actually holding magistracies in no.
298, 299, 305, though Apameia is called their pairis, and they serve it
in various ways (see p. 426). An exact parallel to no. 290 on this
interpretation is found at Ephesos, where Mr. Hicks restores no. 517
very plausibly as a dedication of the Metropolis Ephesos by [01 Kara tt)]v
'Acriav oiKov[i>Tes 'Pw/xatoi], who presumably met in Ephesos as the Com-
mune C. R. in Phrygia met at Apameia, § 17.
The spelling Acvklos here (also no. 298) and Aovklos in no. 305 is
characteristic. M. Eoucart considers that Aeuiaos na guere persisle
audela da regne d'Auguste (BCH 1887 p. 93); but M. S. Reinach more
correctly dates the change about the middle of the first century after
Christ. See also no. 552 and Dittenberger Hermes VI 282 f£.
291. (R. 1891). M. Berard BCH ] 893 p. 305. Senate, Demos, and
Romans honoured Sossia Polla, rjpuiiha, daughter of Q. Sossius Senecio,
twice consul (99, 107), grand-daughter of Sextus Julius Frontinus, thrice
consul (74, 98, 100), wife of Ql. Roscius Pompeius Falco, proconsul of
Asia (c. 128). Their son Q. Pompeius Sosius Priscus cos., and his
1 M. S. Reinach remarked les Apami- Jews of Asia could meet and present
otes ne se seraient jamais permis d'agir common resolutions to a Roman go-
aussi cavalierement envers leur Romains vernor, just as the Romans of Asia did
(Chron. d'Orient). (see p. 426 note).
2 See Mommsen in Histor. Zft. 1890 3 nparas has a similar sense in the
pp. 425 f and ' the Archons of the Syna- inscr. published in Benndorf Lyhia I
gogue' in Expositor April 1894. The no. $1.
from the Apamean state,, and had to pay for their right*, considering that
the Jews before a.d. 70 had the right to choose their* own archons and
administer their internal affairs by their own laws, in spite of the strong
desire of the cities to take the right away from them2.
What then does the inscription mean ? It appears to me that the
meaning, which the Greek words conveyed to me when I first read them,
is the correct one. The five Romans hold a Greek office (ipgavres), as
the supreme board of magistrates (p. 441) in the city; and they mark
the fact, that for the first time 3 in the history of the city the whole board
has been composed of Romans, by this dedication to the Demos, amid
which they hold office. Only in this way does it seem possible to
account for a board of five Roman officials using Greek forms and
language. The inscription marks an interesting period in the romaniza-
tion of a Phrygian city.
Schulten, in his excellent treatise cle c.onventibus G. R. p. 32, inclines
to this view of this difficult inscr. The only difficulty is that the
Apamean Italians are not found actually holding magistracies in no.
298, 299, 305, though Apameia is called their pairis, and they serve it
in various ways (see p. 426). An exact parallel to no. 290 on this
interpretation is found at Ephesos, where Mr. Hicks restores no. 517
very plausibly as a dedication of the Metropolis Ephesos by [01 Kara tt)]v
'Acriav oiKov[i>Tes 'Pw/xatoi], who presumably met in Ephesos as the Com-
mune C. R. in Phrygia met at Apameia, § 17.
The spelling Acvklos here (also no. 298) and Aovklos in no. 305 is
characteristic. M. Eoucart considers that Aeuiaos na guere persisle
audela da regne d'Auguste (BCH 1887 p. 93); but M. S. Reinach more
correctly dates the change about the middle of the first century after
Christ. See also no. 552 and Dittenberger Hermes VI 282 f£.
291. (R. 1891). M. Berard BCH ] 893 p. 305. Senate, Demos, and
Romans honoured Sossia Polla, rjpuiiha, daughter of Q. Sossius Senecio,
twice consul (99, 107), grand-daughter of Sextus Julius Frontinus, thrice
consul (74, 98, 100), wife of Ql. Roscius Pompeius Falco, proconsul of
Asia (c. 128). Their son Q. Pompeius Sosius Priscus cos., and his
1 M. S. Reinach remarked les Apami- Jews of Asia could meet and present
otes ne se seraient jamais permis d'agir common resolutions to a Roman go-
aussi cavalierement envers leur Romains vernor, just as the Romans of Asia did
(Chron. d'Orient). (see p. 426 note).
2 See Mommsen in Histor. Zft. 1890 3 nparas has a similar sense in the
pp. 425 f and ' the Archons of the Syna- inscr. published in Benndorf Lyhia I
gogue' in Expositor April 1894. The no. $1.