Honorary inscription in elegiacs for proconsul Messalinus
by boule of Ephesos, on statue-base; 4e?; found at Ephesos:
Miltner, JÖAI 44, 1959, 276-277; Malcus, OAth 7, 1967, 130-131,
no. 1; *IEph 1307; Peek, JÖAI 57, 1986, 105; SEG 37, 898.
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IEph 1307
| 1 | ἀγαθῆι τύχηι· Μεσσαλίνον τὸν |
| [ἄρισ]τ[ον] ἐν ἀνθ[υπάτοι]- | |
| [σιν] ἀγαυόν ἀντ’ ε[ὐ]- | |
| ηγεσίης καὶ πόλεων | |
| 5 | καμάτων, οὓς κάμεν |
| οὐκ ἀέκων, οἷς ἠ- | |
| έξησε πόληας ἡ | |
| βουλὴ στῆσε(ν) τῆς | |
| μεγάλης Ἐφέσου. |