Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004

87. Third statue for Rhodopaeus

Description

Monument: A white marble statue base shaft, now in at least 7 fragments, with panels within moulded edges on three sides; the back is lost (approx. 0.88 × 0.59 × 0.34).
Text: Inscribed on upper moulding (l.1) and face (ll. 2ff.) of central panel. The last letters of ll. 5 and 13 are cut on the moulding.
Letters: 0.025-0.0375; angular and irregular; similar to 86.
Date: Sixth century(prosopography, titulature).

Text

	Ἀγαθῇ [Τύ]χῃ·
	[τὸν] μεγαλοπρεπέ -
	σ̣τατον Ῥοδοπαῖον
	τὸν φιλόπατριν καὶ
5	[ἀ[ρ]ωγὸ]ν τοῦ δήμου,
	[τὸν] [ἀρ]χηγὸν τῆς
	φιλοτιμίας τοῦ
	θερινοῦ Ὀλυμπί -
	ου λουτροῦ
10	καὶ σιτοδότην ὁ -
	μοῦ δὲ κ[αὶ] κτίστην,
	τὸν ἀ̣ν̣[α]νεωτὴν
	τῶν λη[θ]αργηθισῶν
	τέρψαιων, τ[ὸν] [δι]-
15	ὰ πάντ[α] [[ἡμῶ]ν ἰδίᾳ]
	τε καὶ κο[ινῇ] [ἀλη]-
	θάργητο[ν] [εὐερ]-
	γέτην ἀ[νδριάν]-
	τι κοσμή[σασα]
20	τὸ τρί[τον] [ἡ πόλις̣].

Translation

To Good Fortune. The magnificentissimus Rhodopaeus, the lover of his country and defender of the people, the originator of the generous gift of the summer Olympian bath, and giver of corn as well as founder, renewer of pleasures that had been forgotten, the never-to-be-forgotten benefactor to us in everything, privately and public—the city (has honoured him) adorning him with a statue for the third time

Apparatus

The restorations are all from Sherard's copy.

l. 5. ΑΙΙΙΓΟΝ Sherard; ἄωτον Boeckh, Cormack; ἀρωγόν Robert (and cf. 37, v.9).

l.15. ΠΑΝΤΑ [..] ΙΔΙΑ Sherard; πάντα ἡμῶν ἰδίᾳ Boeckh; πάντ[α ἡμῶ]ν ἰδίᾳ Cormack.

l.20. ΤΟΤΡΙΤΟΗ Sherard; ΤΟΤΡΙ survives. confirming τὸ τρίτον (Boeckh, Cormack) rather than τῷ τρίτῳ (Robert, tentatively).

Photographs

Upper left corner (1976)	Upper right corner (1976)	Left side, lines 6-13 (1976)	Right side, lines 12-14 (1966)	Left side, lines 14-20 (1976)

Commentary

For Rhodopaeus, see 86, 87, and discussion at VI.26.

Locations

Found: 'in a field 200 m north-west of the Temple' MAMA; just south of the path to the West Gate (NYU).
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Findspot; one fragment in Museum.

History

Recording: The complete block copied by Sherard in 1716 (BL Add. 10101, f. 122-3). Six fragments found by the MAMA expedition. Four of those fragments, and one other, found by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography: Published from Sherard by Boeckh, CIG 2804, whence Robert, Hellenica 4, 128, BE 1949.178; from the MAMA records by Cormack, MAMA 8, no. 504, whence BE 1966:401; published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 87 and plate xxii, whence PHI 672.
Text constituted from: Publications; transcription (Roueché).

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