85. First honours for Rhodopaeus, in verseCharlotte M. Roueché2003-01-29
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Description of Monument
A rectangular statue base shaft, without moulding, of bluish marble, chipped at upper right corner, and broken in two (c. 1.53 × 0.50 × 0.37).
Description of Text
The inscription is laid out with unusual elegance: the epigram itself is cut within a decorative margin, and each couplet is inscribed in four lines (five for the third) with each line starting slightly to the right of the one above, but returning to the margin at the start of the next couplet.
Description of Letters
l. 1. 0.04; ll. 2 - 14, 0025, l. 13. 0.05; neat and rounded, very similar to 88, except for l.1, which is in an angular hand, more like that of 86 and 87.
Translation
To Good Fortune. You have made many presents to your country, Rhodopaeus, so many that they are not easy to say or to count; and the city has presented you with great honours, father, having set up your image in marble so that time may not obscure your image - you who are loved by many - overshadowing it with forgetfulness. With good fortune!
Commentary
For Rhodopaeus, see 86, 87, and discussion at VI.26.
Found
Hadrianic Baths: East Court: 'Face Est du pylône Nord' (Boulanger).
Original Location
Unknown.
Last Recorded Location
Lying loose in the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths.
History of Recording
Excavated by Boulanger, 16 October 1913 (notebook A, 69 no. 6, whence B, 31, no. 6; recorded by J. and L. Robert; recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography
Published by L. Robert, Hellenica 4, 127 and plate vii, from Boulanger and his own copy, whence BE1949.178, BE1972.473; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 85 and plate xxi, whence PHI727, Steinepigramme02/09/22.