3.8. i. Verse honours for Oikoumenios; ii. Invocation
- Description:
- A white marble statue, and a rectangular white marble statue base shaft with panels within moulded edges on three sides (H. 1.27 × W. 0.60 × D. 0.53).
- Text:
- i. Inscribed on the central panel of the base; the surface is rough, either because it was badly prepared, or more probably because an earlier inscription had been erased. ii. Inscribed on the head of the statue, behind the front line of hair, to the left of centre.
- Letters:
- i. Irregular, 0.025-0.04; I. 6. apparently an apostrophe after τῆιδ I. 9, Ω for ω(ν)). ii. Neatly cut.
- Date:
- Later fourth century A.D. (style, language).
- Findspot:
- North Agora: standing against the north wall of the north stoa. .
- Original Location:
- Findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1994).
- History of discovery:
- The base and the body of the statue were excavated by the NYU expedition in 1965 (base: 65.198); see K. T. Erim in Turk Ark. Derg. 15.1 (1966), 61. The head was excavated in 2000.
- Bibliography:
- Published by •Ševcenko (1967), 286, whence BE 1968.508 ; republished by •Ševcenko (1968) 29, whence BE 1969.543 ; by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, no. 31 and plate ix, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 724 , Steinepigramme 02/09/17 . Statue: K.T. Erim, ''Two new early Byzantine statues from Aphrodisias'', DOP 21 (1967), 285-6, no. 2; Smith (2002) 134-156.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché); Publication. This edition Roueché (2007).
- i
- 1τὸν σὲ νόμων πλή|θοντα, τὸν Ἰταλι|ώτιδα Μοῦσαν v. |
- 2 v. Ἀτθίδος ἡδυεπεῖ | (5) v. κιρνάμενον μέλιτι |
- 3 τῆιδ' Οἰκουμένιον | τὸν ἀοίδιμον ἡγεμο|νῆα v.
- 4στῆσε φίλη | βουλὴ τῶν Ἀφροδισιέων̣· |
- 5(10) τῶι γὰρ δὴ καθαρῶι φρέ|να καὶ χέρα, τί πλέον | εὑρεῖν v.
- 6μνημοσύ|νης ἀγαθῆς ἄλλο πά|ρεστι γέρας; leaf
- ii
- 1 ΧΜΓ()
- i
- 1ΤΟΝΣΕΝΟΜΩΝΠΛΗ
- 2ΘΟΝΤΑΤΟΝΙΤΑΛΙ
- 3ΩΤΙΔΑΜΟΥΣΑΝ
- 4 ΑΤΘΙΔΟΣΗΔΥΕΠΕΙ
- 5 ΚΙΡΝΑΜΕΝΟΝΜΕΛΙΤΙ
- 6ΤΗΙΔ'ΟΙΚΟΥΜΕΝΙΟΝ
- 7ΤΟΝΑΟΙΔΙΜΟΝΗΓΕΜΟ
- 8ΝΗΑ ΣΤΗΣΕΦΙΛΗ
- 9ΒΟΥΛΗΤΩΝΑΦΡΟΔΙΣΙΕΩ·
- 10ΤΩΙΓΑΡΔΗΚΑΘΑΡΩΙΦΡΕ
- 11ΝΑΚΑΙΧΕΡΑΤΙΠΛΕΟΝ
- 12ΕΥΡΕΙΝ ΜΝΗΜΟΣΥ
- 13ΝΗΣΑΓΑΘΗΣΑΛΛΟΠΑ
- 14ΡΕΣΤΙΓΕΡΑΣ leaf
- ii
- 1ΧΜΓ
Translation:
i: You who are full of (knowledge of) laws, who have blended the Italian Muse with the sweet-voiced honey of the Attic, Oikoumenios, the famous governor, the friendly council of the Aphrodisians has set you up here; for what greater reward than that of being well remembered can the man find who is pure in mind and in hand?
ii: ?M(ary) b(ore) Ch(rist). God, help.
Commentary:
For i. see discussion at ala2004 III.33.
For ii., the inscription on the head, see discussion at ala2004 VIII.20, and compare 15.102
For the statue and the monument as whole, see Smith 'The Statue Monument of Oecumenius: A New Portrait of a Late Antique Governor from Aphrodisias' (JRS, 2002), 134-156
Photographs:
Representations:
You may download this inscription in EpiDoc XML. (You may need the EpiDoc DTD v. 5 to validate this file.)