ABSTRACT
The gist of the decree and the accompanying letter can quickly be summarized. The different names of the two brothers suggest that each had been adopted by different families, a point that also applies to Munatius’ son, Marius Verus. More uncertainty surrounds the offer to Munatius of fifty chorai, apparently a hapax in the sense it seems to have here. The purpose and significance of the statuae and imagines clipeatae can be judged in the context of a practice familiar throughout the Greco-Roman world and evidently imitated here by the phretores Artemisii. The decree, which is entirely concerned with honours for Munatius, makes no mention of images of the emperor, but the epigraphical record certainly gives the impression that such were commonly in the possession of colleges and associations of every sort and discription; in some cases, of course, colleges were created solely for the purpose of honouring the imperial image.
