Inscriptions inédites de l'Asie Mineure

TL;DR

Ramsay publishes previously unedited Greek inscriptions from Asia Minor, chiefly from Synnada in Phrygia, with commentary on Roman provincial administration and civic institutions. The most consequential claim is that an honorific text for Lucullus shows Synnada belonged to the province of Asia during his governorship.

Key findings

• Inscription no. 22, on a small hexagonal marble column at Synnada, honours "Λεύκιον ... Λικίννιον ... Λευκίου υἱόν, Λεύκο[λλ]ον" as patron and benefactor. Ramsay reads it as evidence that "Synnada was included in the province of Asia at the time when Lucullus governed it," and argues the city was attached to Cilicia under Dolabella in 80 B.C., the change being made "for the first time in this year."
• Ramsay treats the inscription as a commentary on Cicero, *Acad.* II. 1 ("in Asiam quaestor profectus, ibi per multos annos admirabili quadam laude provinciae praefuit"), noting Lucullus was quaestor under Sulla in 88 B.C., remained in the east as proquaestor until 80, and returned to be aedile in 79.
• Inscription no. 23, on a marble pillar before the mosque at Atlesser near Synnada, records a decree of the "συνέδριον τῶν [Φιλ]οσε[βά]στων Νέων" honouring Titus Aurelius Claudius Attalus, son of Claudius Aurelius Sat... Tertullinus, for his father's benefactions to the synedrion. Ramsay dates it "not much earlier than 200 A. D." and notes that colleges of Neoi, common in coastal Greek cities, also occur in upper Phrygia at Nacoleia and Synnada.
• Inscription no. 24, read "in a dark courtyard" at Synnada, is heavily restored and fragmentary; the legible portions include a name ending in "-ροδώρου τοῦ Λιμναίου" and honours involving crowns, a painted portrait, and a marble statue.

Methods

• Epigraphic publication: transcription, restoration (in brackets), and translation of Greek inscriptions Ramsay examined on stone at Synnada (Tchifout Cassaba) and Atlesser, organised by region (Phrygia, Lycaonia, Cappadocia, Cilicia).
• Historical commentary situating the texts against literary and epigraphic comparanda, including Cicero, the *Corpus Inscriptionum Atticarum* (III, 562, 563), Delian inscriptions (*Bull. de Corr. Hell.* III, 147), Waddington's *Fastes des provinces d'Asie*, and Ramsay's own earlier publications.
• No systematic sampling or quantitative analysis is described; the method is individual autopsy and philological-historical interpretation.

Limitations

• The paper states no limitations of its own.
• Evident from the text: the supplied version is an uncorrected OCR of only pp. 297–300 of a 297–328 article, so most of the corpus (Lycaonia, Cappadocia, Cilicia) is absent and the Greek is frequently garbled.
• Many readings are explicitly conjectural, marked by bracketed restorations; inscription no. 24 in particular is fragmentary and read under poor conditions ("in a dark courtyard").