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16. Verse honours for Helladius

Description

• Monument: Four adjoining fragments (together 0.47 × 0.45 × 0.24) of a white marble statue base shaft, with panels within moulded edges on at least three sides; there are traces of an earlier inscription (second century) on the panel to the right. The lower part of the shaft and the upper right corner are lost.
• Text: Inscribed on the front panel, which has a rough but deep groove down the left side of the text. The last letter of l.3 is cut on the moulding.
• Letters: Av. 0.03; irregular, clear-cut; lunate sigma and epsilon; ligature: second ΝΗ, l.3.
• Date: First half of the fourth century (lettering).

Text

Translation

The Carians set up (a statue of) this great governor, Helladius, making a return for his great virtue.

Apparatus

l.1: Cormack wrongly indicated space for letters above this line.

l.6: Cormack's copies showed [...]Σ̣Ι̣Β̣Ο̣Α̣Ι̣(the last letters only in Kubitschek's copy) whence he restored [ἐ|γερ]σ̣ι̣βό̣[αι], which Robert rejected. For an independent restoration of ἀμειβόμενοι from the MAMA reading, see Drew-Bear (loc. cit. below).

Photographs

Fragment from right edge, lines 4-5 (1977)	Fragment from right edge, lines 4-5 (1977)	Fragment from right edge, from l. 4 (1977)	Fragment from right edge , lines 1-3 (1977)	Assembled fragments (1977)

Representations

Drawing by Kubitschek, K V.17

Commentary

For Helladius see 17, 18 and List of Governors, Helladius.

For discussion see II.35.

Locations

• Found: Temple-Church; probably re-used in the Byzantine bema barrier.
• Original: Unknown.
• Last Recorded: Main fragment at findspot; other fragments in Museum.

History

• Recording: Main fragment copied by Kubitschek (K V.17; Abklatsch 12); recorded by the MAMA expedition; recorded, with three further fragments (70.2, 70.6, 70.584), by the NYU expedition.
• Bibliography: Published, from Kubitschek and the MAMA records, by •Cormack, MAMA 8, 531, whence L. Robert, Hellenica 13, 157-158, BE 1966.404, Drew-Bear, REA 82 (1980), 161-164, no. 3 and 182, whence SEG 1981.912, An.Ép. 1981.763; cited by Roueché (1979), 175, note 9, whence SEG 1979.1069; published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 16 and plate v, whence PHI 721, Steinepigramme 02/09/14.
• Text constituted from: Publications; Kubitschek notebook; Transcription (Roueché).

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