Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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58. Building inscription of Pytheas, in verse
Description
- Monument:
Three fragments, not joining, from an white marble architrave with decoration (which is broken away) above three stepped fasciae, diminishing in height; a and c: not measured; b: 0.52 × 1.37 × 0.54.
- Text:
Inscribed on the upper two fasciae.
- Letters:
Upper fascia 0.10, lower fascia 0.08; elongated, ornate.
- Date:
Late fifth century (prosopography)
Text
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[...] παστάδα κίον' ἐκ ι̣ι̣[...]
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[...]τ̣ Πυθέας ο̣ρ̣σ̣ι̣ι̣ι̣υ̣[...]
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[...] καμνοῦσαν ἀνάγκῃ κ̣[...]
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[...]ι̣ ἔσχε νόον vac. [...]
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[...]α̣[...]
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[...]διι̣[...]
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Translation
a. [...?built the] colonnade (with) column from [...] Pytheas [...]
b. [...]suffering from necessity [...] had a mind.
Photographs
| a: face (1977) |
b: face (1972) |
c: face (1989) |
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Representations
| a and b: Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, page 78 |
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Commentary
For Pytheas see 55, 56, 57, 250 and discussion at V.18.
Locations
- Found:
Hadrianic Baths: East Court: a: 'Dans le 2e entrée à partir du S(ud) du portique O(uest), s(ud)' (Boulanger); b: 'Term. S(ud) du portique O(uest)'. (Boulanger).
- Original:
Unknown.
- Last Recorded:
Among the material from the French excavations in the East Court.
History
- Recording:
a and b excavated by Boulanger, 1 November 1913 (notebook A, 78, 23 and 24, whence B 23, 29); a, b and c recorded by the NYU expedition, c in 1989.
- Bibliography:
a and b published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 58 and plate xiv, whence PHI 708, Steinepigramme 02/09/20.
- Text constituted from:
Boulanger notebook; transcription (Roueché).
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