Neue kaiserzeitliche Inschriften aus Kibyra

The new inscriptions published in this volume are an impressive cross-section of the prosperous urban society of Roman Imperial Cibyra. Outstanding honorary families, some of whose members were able to rise to the imperial aristocracy, stand before our eyes in desirable differentiation of their kinship relations: the Claudii Paulini, the Claudii Polemones or the hitherto unknown Flavii Captiones, who were among the builders of the impressive stadium of Cibyra. The findings of the excavations in the so-called eastern necropolis of Cibyra have contributed significantly to this. But we also encounter Roman businessmen who married local citizens’ daughters, doctors, mathematicians, ‘policemen’ and their widows, public slaves who cared little about their legally unfree status, illegitimate children adopted as foster children, or female friendships. The cabinet pieces in this volume include a complex of mosaic inscriptions in front of the Odeion of Cibyra and the funerary inscription of Indonius, the grandson and presumed adopted son of a certain Claudius Neiketes. The young man wrote his epitaph himself, playing in a charming way with the local Greek and Latin names that were used in his family and with references to the landscape that characterised the area around the village of Cibyra.