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87. Third statue for Rhodopaeus

Description | Text | Translation | Apparatus | Images | Commentary | Location | History


Description

  • Monument: A white marble statue base shaft, now in at least 7 fragments, with panels within moulded edges on three sides; the back is lost (approx. 0.88 × 0.59 × 0.34).
  • Text: Inscribed on upper moulding (l.1) and face (ll. 2ff.) of central panel. The last letters of ll. 5 and 13 are cut on the moulding.
  • Letters: 0.025-0.0375; angular and irregular; similar to 86.
  • Date: Sixth century(prosopography, titulature).

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  Ἀγαθῇ [Τύ]χῃ·
  [τὸν] μεγαλοπρεπέ -
  στατον Ῥοδοπαῖον
  τὸν φιλόπατριν καὶ
[ἀ[ρ]ωγὸ]ν τοῦ δήμου,
  [τὸν] [ἀρ]χηγὸν τῆς
  φιλοτιμίας τοῦ
  θερινοῦ Ὀλυμπί -
  ου λουτροῦ
10  καὶ σιτοδότην ὁ -
  μοῦ δὲ κ[αὶ] κτίστην,
  τὸν ἀν[α]νεωτὴν
  τῶν λη[θ]αργηθισῶν
  τέρψαιων, τ[ὸν] [δι]-
15  ὰ πάντ[α] [[ἡμῶ]ν ἰδίᾳ]
  τε καὶ κο[ινῇ] [ἀλη]-
  θάργητο[ν] [εὐερ]-
  γέτην ἀ[νδριάν]-
  τι κοσμή[σασα]
20  τὸ τρί[τον] [ἡ πόλις].

Translation

To Good Fortune. The magnificentissimus Rhodopaeus, the lover of his country and defender of the people, the originator of the generous gift of the summer Olympian bath, and giver of corn as well as founder, renewer of pleasures that had been forgotten, the never-to-be-forgotten benefactor to us in everything, privately and public—the city (has honoured him) adorning him with a statue for the third time

Apparatus

The restorations are all from Sherard's copy.

l. 5. ΑΙΙΙΓΟΝ Sherard; ἄωτον Boeckh, Cormack; ἀρωγόν Robert (and cf. 37, v.9).

l.15. ΠΑΝΤΑ [..] ΙΔΙΑ Sherard; πάντα ἡμῶν ἰδίᾳ Boeckh; πάντ[α ἡμῶ]ν ἰδίᾳ Cormack.

l.20. ΤΟΤΡΙΤΟΗ Sherard; ΤΟΤΡΙ survives. confirming τὸ τρίτον (Boeckh, Cormack) rather than τῷ τρίτῳ (Robert, tentatively).

Photographs

Upper left corner (1976) Upper right corner (1976) Left side, lines 6-13 (1976) Right side, lines 12-14 (1966) Left side, lines 14-20 (1976)
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Commentary

For Rhodopaeus, see 86, 87, and discussion at VI.26.

Locations

  • Found: 'in a field 200 m north-west of the Temple' MAMA; just south of the path to the West Gate (NYU).
  • Original: Unknown.
  • Last Recorded: Findspot; one fragment in Museum.

History

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