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24. Verse honours for Menander, ?vicar
Description | Text | Translation | Images | Commentary | Location | History
Description
- Monument:
A bluish marble columnar statue base shaft, broken below (height 1.45. diam. 0.55).
- Text:
Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
0.05-0.06; ll.9, 4, 0.065; elongated and elegantly cut.
- Date:
AD 385/388 (prosopography).
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leaf ἡ βουλὴ τὸν πᾶσι προς|ηνέα τόνδε Μένανδρον |
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πολλῶν ἀντ' ἀγαθῶν | στῆσεν ἀμειβομένη | |
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(5) ὃς μεγάλῃ χαρίεντα πόλι | θρεπτήρια τίνων |
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δασμοὺς πρηΰνας πᾶσιν | ἔθηκε φάος leaf
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Translation
The Council, in exchange for many benefits, set up this (statue of) Menander, who was affable to all, and who, making a welcome repayment for his rearing to the great city, moderated (her) tribute, and established light for all.
Photographs
| Face (1972) |
Right side (1972) |
Face (1973) |
Face (NYU excavation photo) |
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Representations
| Boulanger, Notebook A, page 49 |
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Commentary
See discussion at III.22.
Locations
- Found:
Hadrianic Baths: "Galerie de l'Est—Partie S(ud)" (Boulanger); lying in the southern stretch of the west portico of the South Agora.
- Original:
Unknown.
- Last Recorded:
Findspot.
History
- Recording:
Excavated by the French expedition in 1905, and copied by A. Boulanger in 1913 (notebook A, 49 no. 1, whence B, 10-11, no. 9); copied by J. and L. Robert in 1946; recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
Published from his own copy and from Boulanger, by •L. Robert, Hellenica 4, 133-5 and plate vi, whence BE 1949.178; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 24 and Plate vii, whence PHI 723, Steinepigramme 02/09/16.
- Text constituted from:
Publications; Boulanger; transcription (Roueché).
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