Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

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24. Verse honours for Menander, vicar

Description

• Monument: A bluish marble columnar statue base shaft, broken below (height 1.45. diam. 0.55).
• Text: Inscribed on the face.
• Letters: 0.05-0.06; ll.9, 4, 0.065; elongated and elegantly cut.
• Date: AD 385/388 (prosopography).

Text

Translation

The Council, in exchange for many benefits, set up this (statue of) Menander, who was affable to all, and who, making a welcome repayment for his rearing to the great city, moderated (her) tribute, and established light for all.

Photographs

Face (1972)	Right side (1972)	Face (1973)	Face (NYU excavation photo)

Representations

Boulanger, Notebook A, page 49

Commentary

See discussion at III.22.

Locations

• Found: Hadrianic Baths: "Galerie de l'Est—Partie S(ud)" (Boulanger); lying in the southern stretch of the west portico of the South Agora.
• Original: Unknown.
• Last Recorded: Findspot.

History

• Recording: Excavated by the French expedition in 1905, and copied by A. Boulanger in 1913 (notebook A, 49 no. 1, whence B, 10-11, no. 9); copied by J. and L. Robert in 1946; recorded by the NYU expedition.
• Bibliography: Published from his own copy and from Boulanger, by •L. Robert, Hellenica 4, 133-5 and plate vi, whence BE 1949.178; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 24 and Plate vii, whence PHI 723, Steinepigramme 02/09/16.
• Text constituted from: Publications; Boulanger; transcription (Roueché).

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