Özet:

Building activity was undoubtedly the most visible way of self-celebration and of dis­playing financial power. Although that most monuments in the Roman East were constructed by the ruling elite, civic authorities and the emperor, under the Principate, leading members of the middle classes and professional associations, local craftsmen and artisans, traders and merchants, Ro­man negotiatores, well-to-do imperial freedmen and even slaves, in their attempt to imitate aris­to­­cratic practices of their time, undertook some building projects by supervising, commissioning and financing sacred, public and semi-private monuments. Certainly the cases of this non-elite build­ing euergetism are not numerous, but, when seen in relation to other forms of social mobil­ity, such as the entry of low-born persons and freedmen into the local councils, may indicate social chan­ges. The aim of this paper is to gather the epigraphic testimonies and to interpret the building acti­vities of these atypical benefactors in the context of urban development and daily life.

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