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56. Epigram for Pytheas
Description | Text | Translation | Apparatus | Images | Commentary | Location | History
Description
- Monument:
Six fragments from a white marble statue base shaft with panels within moulded edges on all sides (a 1.40 × 0.51 × 0.43).
- Text:
Inscribed on the front panel; the last letter of l. 11 cut on moulding.
- Letters:
Av. 0.04; irregular, elongated: Ε is both square and lunate; dot for stop.
- Date:
Late fifth century (prosopography).
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ἄστ[υ] θεῆς
| Παφίης καὶ
| Πυθέου, ἡ μὲν
| ὀρ[θῶσ]α stop
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τὴν
| (5) [...]οιαθεη
| [... π]όλιν
| [...]ον stop
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χορσ[...]ννηον
| γὰρ ἐπασ[σ]υτέροι
|(10)σιν ἐπ' ἔργοις stop
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ὄλβου ἀφειδείων
| κτίσσεν ἀπαρ
|χόμενος leaf
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Translation
City of the Paphian goddess and of Pytheas: she, for her
part, having exalted [?has given blessings] appropriate to a goddess
[to] the city [...?while he] in addition to constant works,
unsparing of his wealth, has built [...] as an offering.
Apparatus
ὀρ[θῶσ]α Cameron,
ὁρ[ῶσ]α Merkelbach-Stauffer
Photographs
| Left side fragments (1972) |
Centre fragments (1966) |
Right side and one left side fragments (1976) |
Right side (1966) |
Lower right corner (1978) |
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| Fragment, lines 2-4 (1976) |
Fragment, lines 7-10 (1977) |
Detail, lines 11-13 (1972) |
Fragment, lines 12-13 (1977) |
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Representations
| Statue and base: Drawing: K.Gorkay, from Smith (1999)
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Commentary
For Pytheas see 55, 57, 58, 250 and discussion at V.18.
Locations
- Found:
Bouleuterion/Odeon: in the area of the stage; where the accompanying statue was also found.
- Original:
Bouleuterion/Odeon.
- Last Recorded:
One fragment in the back corridor of the Bouleuterion/Odeon; five in the Museum. Statue in the Museum.
History
- Recording:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1962-64; statue excavated in 1962-3 (62.484, 62.489, 63.72).
- Bibliography:
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 56 and plate xiv, whence PHI 726, Steinepigramme 02/09/19.
Statue published by J. Inan and E. Alföldi, Roman and early Byzantine portait sculpture from Asia Minor (London, 1966), no. 66; discussed by Smith (1999), 168 and fig. 8, plate iv.
- Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché).
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