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86. Second honours for Rhodopaeus
Description
- Monument:
A white marble columnar statue base shaft, broken above, and with the surface lost at the left edge of the text (ll. 1.13,
diam. c. 0.44).
- Text:
Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
0.02 (omicron) -0.04; angular and irregular, similar to 87.
- Date:
Sixth century (prosopography).
Text
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[τὸν ἀ]ληθάργητον εὐ
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[ερ]γέτην τὸν λου
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[τ]ροῖς καὶ σιταρχίαις
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λ̣οιμὸν καὶ λιμὸν ἀπε
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λάσαντα Ῥοδοπαῖον
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[τ]ὸν φιλόπατριν ποθοῦ
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[σ]α πόλ<ε>ις δευτέρῃ
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[τ]ῇδ' εἰκόνι μαρμάραι
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κοσμήσασα ἀξίαις
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[ἡ]μείψατο τιμαῖς.
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cross
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Translation
The never-to-be-forgotten benefactor, who, with baths and with command of the corn-supply, drove away plague and famine, Rhodopaeus,
lover of his country; the city, loving him, has adorned him with this second marble image, repaying him with worthy honours.
Apparatus
ll.1 - 2. εὐ[ερ]|γέτην Reinach.
l.9. ἀ[ξί]λαις Reinach; there appears to be a fault in the stone after the initial Α.
l.11 Reinach did not record the cross, which was probably not included on the squeeze.
Photographs
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Right side (1978) |
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Representations
Commentary
For Rhodopaeus, see 85, 87, and discussion at VI.26.
Locations
- Found:
Hadrianic Baths.
- Original:
Unknown.
- Last Recorded:
Lying in the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths.
History
- Recording:
Recorded by Gaudin (90); by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
Published from Gaudin by Reinach, no. 75, whence Robert, Hellenica 4, 127-128, BE 1949.178; discussed by Roueché (1979), 182; published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 86 and plate xxii, whence PHI 671.
- Text constituted from:
Publications; Transcription (Roueché).
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