86. Second honours for Rhodopaeus

Description

Monument: A white marble columnar statue base shaft, broken above, and with the surface lost at the left edge of the text (ll. 1.13, diam. c. 0.44).
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.02 (omicron) -0.04; angular and irregular, similar to 87.
Date: Sixth century (prosopography).

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	[τὸν ἀ]ληθάργητον εὐ -
	[ερ]γέτην τὸν λου -
	[τ]ροῖς καὶ σιταρχίαις
	λοιμὸν καὶ λιμὸν ἀπε -
5	λάσαντα Ῥοδοπαῖον
	[τ]ὸν φιλόπατριν ποθοῦ -
	[σ]α πόλ<ε>ις δευτέρῃ
	[τ]ῇδ' εἰκόνι μαρμάραι
	κοσμήσασα ἀξίαις
10	[ἡ]μείψατο τιμαῖς.
	cross

Translation

The never-to-be-forgotten benefactor, who, with baths and with command of the corn-supply, drove away plague and famine, Rhodopaeus, lover of his country; the city, loving him, has adorned him with this second marble image, repaying him with worthy honours.

Apparatus

ll.1 - 2. εὐ[ερ]|γέτην Reinach.

l.9. ἀ[ξί]λαις Reinach; there appears to be a fault in the stone after the initial Α.

l.11 Reinach did not record the cross, which was probably not included on the squeeze.

Photographs

Centre (1978) Right side (1978)

Representations

Squeeze (1978)

Commentary

For Rhodopaeus, see 85, 87, and discussion at VI.26.

Locations

Found: Hadrianic Baths.
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Lying in the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths.

History

Recording: Recorded by Gaudin (90); by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography: Published from Gaudin by Reinach, no. 75, whence Robert, Hellenica 4, 127-128, BE 1949.178; discussed by Roueché (1979), 182; published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 86 and plate xxii, whence PHI 671.
Text constituted from: Publications; Transcription (Roueché).

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