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64. Verse honours for ?a governor

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Description

  • Monument: Two joining fragments of a white marble columnar statue base shaft (total H. c. 1.35. diam. 0.53); the substantial part found standing on a plinth (H. 0.33) cut down from the socle of a fluted column; the upper left corner fragment found separately.
  • Text: Inscribed on the face.
  • Letters: 0.03-0.04, clear, irregular.
  • Date: Fifth century (lettering).

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     [... c. 13 ...] ἔρνος | [... c. 12 ...]ληοσ |
     [... c. 12 ...]ινορασ | [...] |
     (5) [...] | λ[..]σησ φροδ[ίτη]ν |
     ἐνφύλιον δῆριν ὀλεσί |πτολιν ἐξελάσαντα leaf .

Translation

[...] offspring [...] Aphrodite, (he who) drove out city-destroying civil strife.

Photographs

Base in position, with ALA 62 (1976) Base (1976) Detail, left (1972) Detail, right (1972) Upper right corner fragment (1973)
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Fragments assembled (1977)
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Commentary

See discussion at V.37.

Locations

  • Found: Tetrastoon: main part found standing against a column of the western colonnade of the tetrastoon, immediately south of 62; fragment found in the same area (NPS I) at 0.20 above the paving. See plan 6.
  • Original: Findspot.
  • Last Recorded: Findspot and Museum.

History

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