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86. Second honours for Rhodopaeus

Description | Text | Translation | Apparatus | Images | Commentary | Location | History


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 -
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)
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Representations

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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

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