Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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74. Verse honours for Hermias, benefactor
Description
- Monument:
A rectangular white marble base with panels within moulded edges on four sides (1.24 × 0.56 × 0.50).
- Text:
On one face is an inscription of the late second or early third century (partly published by L. Robert, Études Anatoliennes, 299, n. 2; NYU Baths 4); 74 is cut on the opposite panel (1.08 × 0.46)
- Letters:
0.03-0.07; very irregular, clearly cut.
- Date:
Late fifth/sixth century (language, lettering).
Text
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cross χρυσῶν
| χιλιάδας
| τρῖς ὤπασε
| τῶιδε λοετρῶι |
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(5) Ἑρμίας
| κὲ μνῆστιν ἀ
|ειζώουσαν
| ἐφεῦρεν cross .
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Translation
Hermias gave three thousands of gold to this bath, and obtained an everliving fame (i.e. (lit.) memory).
Photographs
| View of base (1994) |
Text (1972) |
Top of base (1994) |
Face and top
(2004)
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Representations
| Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, page59 |
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Commentary
See discussion at V.51, V.53.
Locations
- Found:
Hadrianic Baths: East Court: 'Passage au portique s(ud) de la cour de l'E(st)' (Boulanger). See Plan 3
- Original:
?Findspot.
- Last Recorded:
Hadrianic Baths: southern colonnade of the East Court.
History
- Recording:
Excavated by Mendel in 1905; recorded by Boulanger (notebook A, 59 no. 16, whence B, 9, no. 7); recorded by J. and L. Robert; recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
Published by Grégoire, IGC 277, from Mendel; by Robert, Hellenica 4, 130 and plate, whence BE 1949.178; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 74 and plate xviii, whence PHI 705, Steinepigramme 02/09/15.
- Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché).
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