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63. The Carians honour Palmatus, in verse

Description

• Monument: No description.
• Text: No description.
• Letters: No description.
• Date: Late fifth/early sixth century (prosopography).

Text

Translation

The Carians, remembering many benefits, and greatly admiring the rightly just Palmatus, (set up this statue).

Apparatus

l.2. Although editors have regularly printed the conjecture Παλμᾶν, Alan Cameron showed that the original reading, Παλμᾶτον, was to be preferred

(Porphyrius, 194).

Commentary

See also 62 and discussion at V.33.

For Palmatus see List of Governors, Palmatus.

Locations

• Found: Unknown.
• Original: Unknown.
• Last Recorded: Unknown.

History

• Recording: An epigram either recorded, almost certainly at Aphrodisias, by a Byzantine copyist, or intended for inscription at Aphrodisias; not reported subsequently.
• Bibliography: Published in the Planudean Anthology (book 16 of the Palatine Anthology) 35, whence Robert, Hellenica 4, 14, Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 63, Steinepigramme 02/09/11.
• Text constituted from: Published text.

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