Antioche de Pisidie capitale provinciale et l’œuvre de M. Valerius Diogenes

The inscriptions edited here demonstrate the extent of the urban renewal carried out in the district of the theater of Antioch just after the creation of the Province of Pisidia, under the direction of the governor M. Valerius Diogenes, shortly before 311 A. D., towards the end of the reign of Galerius. Previously known inscriptions are restudied, re-edited and, in some cases, recombined from fragments published separately. Several new documents are presented. All these texts indicate how numerous were the edifices concerned by this program of (re)construction. These inscriptions honor the emperors Galerius, Maximinus Daia, Constantine and Licinius, who are ranked in the order that prevailed during the first half of 311. A long text in praise of Galerius, which employs the official vocabulary characteristic of that epoch, ends the series. The activity of the governor M. Valerius Diogenes, famous for his persecution of the Christians under Maximinus Daia from 311 to 313, is displayed as he restores the city, just promoted to the status of capital of a province, and devotes particular attention to the public buildings used for celebrating the cult rendered to the pagan emperors. [Author]