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32. The Phrygian Metropolis honours Alexander, in verse
Description | Text | Translation | Apparatus | Images | Commentary | Location | History
Description
- Monument:
An octagonal white marble base shaft (H. 1.05, on a plinth 0.21; W. 0.50) with two inscriptions. The first, probably dating from the first or early second century AD (unpublished), has been partially erased, and the base placed so that it faces the wall.
- Text:
32 occupies two faces, diametrically opposite the first text.
- Letters:
II. 1-3, 0.04; II. 4-8. 0.035; I. 9, 0.045; clearly cut, irregular; lunate in I. 9, otherwise square.
- Date:
Late fourth or fifth century (lettering, content).
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εἰκόνα λαϊνέην μὲν | Ἀλεξάνδροιο δικαίου |
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ἡ Φρυγίης μήτηρ | μητέρι τῆι Καρίης |
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(5) τῆς ζαθέης ἀρχής τέκμαρ | ἄμβροτον ἐνθάδ' ἔπεμψεν: |
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πᾶς δὲ λόγος μείων | τ' ἀνδρὸς εὐφροσύνης. |
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vacat
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εὐτυχῶς.
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Translation
A stone image of the just Alexander the mother of Phrygia sent here to the mother of Caria, (as) an undying mark of his god-like
rule; but all words fall short of the man's good cheer. With good fortune!
Apparatus
5. There is a line cut over the first Α.
6. There is a cross-bar in the first Ο, making a Θ; Π has been corrected from Η.
7. Π has apparently been corrected from Τ.
Photographs
| Face (1973) |
Face
(1994)
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Left panel (1972) |
Left panel (1994) |
Right panel (1973) |
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| Top of base
(1994)
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Representations
| Statue and base: Drawing: K.Gorkay, from Smith (1999)
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Commentary
For Alexander see List of Governors Alexander.
For the text, see discussion at III.35. For the statue and the monument as whole, see Smith (1999) 165-7.
Locations
- Found:
North Agora: standing against the north wall of the north stoa some way west of 31. See plan 1.
- Original:
Findspot.
- Last Recorded:
Findspot.
History
- Recording:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1965 (65.396). The accompanying statue, whose head is lost, was found lying beside the base, and is now in the Museum.
- Bibliography:
Published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 32 whence PHI 713, C. P. Jones, Hermes 125 (1997), 212-14, Steinepigramme 02/09/02.
Statue: K. T. Erim in Turk Ark. Derg. 15.1 (1966), 61, 66; Smith (1999), 165-7.
- Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché).
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