Περίληψη / Resume / Résumé

As far as Greek honorific inscriptions are concerned, the Imperial Period saw the introduction of an important novelty: the emergence of honorific monuments with texts which record both private individuals as grantors of honour in the nominative case and civic organs as approvers of honour in various verbal formulas that denoted the issuance of a relevant decree, such as the abbreviation ψβ (ψηφίσματι βουλῆς). This novelty is closely associated with the use, already in the 1st century BC, of the abbreviated formula d(ecreto) d(ecurionum) in honorific inscriptions at Italy. The present study, still under progress, examines how this practice was transplanted and spread in the cities of Roman Greece. It also focuses on the various socio-political and ideological issues raised by the fact that the addition of the approving formula to an otherwise typical private honorific inscription explicitly transformed the initially bilateral relation between the private grantor and the private recipient of honour into a triangular one, which included the civic institutions as well.

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