5.18. Eugenios is honoured by ?the boule
- Description:
- A white marble statue base shaft (H. 1.48 × W. 0.535 × D. 0.41with a central recessed panel.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the central, recessed face.
- Letters:
- 0.025-0.03; lunate forms, neat and rounded, very similar to 5.16.
- Date:
- Sixth century (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Hadrianic Baths, East Court: 'Portique N(ord)'.
- Original Location:
- Hadrianic Baths.
- Last recorded location:
- Among the material from the French excavtions piled in the East Court.
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by Boulanger, 30 October 1913 (notebook A, 78, no. 22, whence B, 39 no. 22); recorded by J. and L. Robert; by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published from Boulanger's copy and his own by L. Robert, Hellenica 4, 133 and plate v, whence BE 1949.178; discussed by T. Drew-Bear, REA 82, (1980), 163; published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 88, and plate xxiii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 719, Steinepigramme 02/09/10.
- Text constituted from:
- Boulanger notebooks; publications; transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1ἀντ' εὐεργεσίης καὶ | ὧν δωρήσατο πά |τρηι
- 2 Εὐγένιον τάξις | στῆσεν ἀμιβομένη.
- 1ΑΝΤ'ΕΥΕΡΓΕΣΙΗΣΚΑΙ
- 2ΩΝΔΩΡΗΣΑΤΟΠΑ
- 3ΤΡΗΙΕΥΓΕΝΙΟΝΤΑΞΙΣ
- 4ΣΤΗΣΕΝΑΜΙΒΟΜΕΝΗ
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ἀντ'
εὐεργεσίης
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ὧν
δωρήσατο
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τρηι
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Εὐγένιον
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στῆσεν
ἀμιβομένη
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Apparatus
l.4. After cutting the first Σ of στῆσεν the inscriber began to cut a cross bar, as for Ε.
Translation:
In return for his benefaction, and for the gifts he has made to his country, the ordo set up (a statue of) Eugenios, in repayment.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 VI.32.
Photographs:
- Face (1975)
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- Detail (1972)
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- Top of base (1994)
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Representations:
- Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, p. 78
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