Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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33. Verse honours for Eupeithius
Description
- Monument:
A rectangular white marble statue base with panels within moulded edges on three sides (0.97 × 0.485 × 0.38).
- Text:
Inscribed on the central panel.
- Letters:
0.03-0.045; 12; ligature in I. 4; sigma lunate in 1. 1, otherwise rectangular.
- Date:
Mid to late fourth century (lettering).
Text
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τὸν σοφὸν ἥδε | πόλις Εὐπείθιον | εἵνεκα πάντων |
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στήσατο λαϊνέην | (5) εἰκόνα δειμαμένη leaf |
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μνωομένη μετὰ | πότμον ὅτ' ἀνδρά|σιν αἶνος ἀληθὴς leaf |
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τίνεται ἀνδρομέ|(10)ης ἔκτοθι βασκα|νίης leaf
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Translation
This city had made and set up a stone image (of) the wise Eupeithius because of everything, recalling that it is after death that true praise, beyond human envy, is accorded
to men.
Photographs
| Face (1972) |
Face (1977) |
View (1993) |
Face (1993) |
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Commentary
See discussion at III.38.
Locations
- Found:
Hadrianic baths: at the west side of trench A, in the room north of the tepidarium.
- Original:
Unknown.
- Last Recorded:
Museum.
History
- Recording:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1966 (66.542; SBI 4). The plinth of the accompanying statue, with a fragment of a foot and the edge of a chlamys was found with the base.
- Bibliography:
. Published by •I. Sevcenko, Synthronon (1968), 38 n. 55, whence BE 1969.543; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 33 and plate ix, whence PHI 720, Steinepigramme 02/09/11.
- Text constituted from:
Publication; transcription (Roueché).
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