Description:
A white marble columnar statue base shaft, broken above, and with the surface lost at the left edge of the text (ll. 1.13, diam. c. 0.44).
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.02 (omicron) -0.04; angular and irregular, similar to 11.515.
Date:
Sixth century (prosopography).
Findspot:
Hadrianic Baths.
Original Location:
Hadrianic Baths.
Last recorded location:
Lying in the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths.
History of discovery:
Recorded by Gaudin (90); by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published from Gaudin by Reinach, no. 75, whence Robert, Hellenica 4, 127-128, BE 1949.178; discussed by Roueché (1979), 182; published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 86 and plate xxii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 671.
Text constituted from:
Publications; Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
1[τὸν ἀ]ληθάργητον εὐ -
2[ερ]γέτην τὸν λου -
3[τ]ροῖς καὶ σιταρχίαις
4λ̣οιμὸν καὶ λιμὸν ἀπε -
5λάσαντα Ῥοδοπαῖον
6[τ]ὸν φιλόπατριν ποθοῦ -
7[σ]α πόλ{ε}ις δευτέρῃ
8[τ]ῇδ' εἰκόνι μαρμάραι
9κοσμήσασα ἀξίαις
10[ἡ]μείψατο τιμαῖς.
11 cross
1[····]ΛΗΘΑΡΓΗΤΟΝΕΥ
2[··]ΓΕΤΗΝΤΟΝΛΟΥ
3[·]ΡΟΙΣΚΑΙΣΙΤΑΡΧΙΑΙΣ
4·ΟΙΜΟΝΚΑΙΛΙΜΟΝΑΠΕ
5ΛΑΣΑΝΤΑΡΟΔΟΠΑΙΟΝ
6[·]ΟΝΦΙΛΟΠΑΤΡΙΝΠΟΘΟΥ
7[·]ΑΠΟΛΕΙΣΔΕΥΤΕΡΗ
8[·]ΗΔ'ΕΙΚΟΝΙΜΑΡΜΑΡΑΙ
9ΚΟΣΜΗΣΑΣΑΑΞΙΑΙΣ
10[·]ΜΕΙΨΑΤΟΤΙΜΑΙΣ
11 cross
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<supplied reason="lost" >
τὸν
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
ληθάργητον
εὐ
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<supplied reason="lost" >
ερ
</supplied>
γέτην
τὸν
λου
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
τ
</supplied>
ροῖς
καὶ
σιταρχίαις
<lb n="4" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
λ
</unclear>
οιμὸν
καὶ
λιμὸν
ἀπε
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
λάσαντα
Ῥοδοπαῖον
<lb n="6" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
τ
</supplied>
ὸν
φιλόπατριν
ποθοῦ
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
σ
</supplied>
α
πόλ
<sic n="superfluous" >
ε
</sic>
ις
δευτέρῃ
<lb n="8" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
τ
</supplied>
ῇδ'
εἰκόνι
μαρμάραι
<lb n="9" />
κοσμήσασα
ἀξίαις
<lb n="10" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
</supplied>
μείψατο
τιμαῖς
.
<lb n="11" />
<g type="cross" />
</ab>

Apparatus

ll.1 - 2. εὐ[ερ]|γέτην Reinach.

l.9. ἀ[ξί]λαις Reinach; there appears to be a fault in the stone after the initial Α.

l.11 Reinach did not record the cross, which was probably not included on the squeeze.

Translation:

The never-to-be-forgotten benefactor, who, with baths and with command of the corn-supply, drove away plague and famine, Rhodopaios, lover of his country; the city, loving him, has adorned him with this second marble image, repaying him with worthy honours.

Commentary:

For Rhodopaios, see 5.16, 11.515, and discussion at ala2004 VI.26.

Photographs:

Centre (1978)
 Centre (1978)
Right side (1978)
 Right side (1978)

Representations:

Squeeze (1978)
 Squeeze (1978)

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