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

Journal article

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 After presenting a revised text and translation, the authors discuss the unpublished readings and explore the historical significance of this fragmentary and enigmatic inscription.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.

Authors: Chin, M; Lazar, L

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Prof. Dr. Mustafa ADAK
• Journal: Philia: International Journal of Ancient Mediterranean Studies
• Volume: 6
• Pages: 42-52
• Publication date: 2020-02-01
• Acceptance date: 2020-02-01
• DOI: 10.36991/philia.202003
• EISSN: 3062-2506
• ISSN: 2149-505X
• Language: English
• Keywords: antipatros of Derbe; William Mitchell Ramsay; Akmoneia; Phrygia; honorific inscription