5.120. Verse honours for Eupeithios
- Description:
- A rectangular white marble statue base shaft with panels within moulded edges on three sides (H. 0.97 × W. 0.485 × D. 0.38).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the central panel.
- Letters:
- 0.03-0.045; 12; ligatured ΗΝ in I. 4; sigma lunate in 1. 1, otherwise rectangular.
- Date:
- Mid to late fourth century (lettering).
- Findspot:
- Hadrianic baths: at the west side of trench A, in the room north of the tepidarium.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1993).
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1966 (66.542; SBI 4). The plinth of the accompanying statue, with a fragment of a foot and the edge of a chlamys was found with the base.
- Bibliography:
- . Published by •I. Ševcenko, Synthronon (1968), 38 n. 55, whence BE 1969.543; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 33 and plate ix, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 720, Steinepigramme 02/09/11.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché); Publication. This edition Roueché (2007).
- τὸν σοφὸν ἥδε | πόλις Εὐπείθιον | εἵνεκα πάντων |
- στήσατο λαϊνέην | (5) εἰκόνα δειμαμένη leaf |
- μνωομένη μετὰ | πότμον ὅτ' ἀνδρά|σιν αἶνος ἀληθὴς leaf |
- τίνεται ἀνδρομέ|(10)ης ἔκτοθι βασκα|νίης leaf
- 1ΤΟΝΣΟΦΟΝΗΔΕ
- 2ΠΟΛΙΣΕΥΠΕΙΘΙΟΝ
- 3ΕΙΝΕΚΑΠΑΝΤΩΝ
- 4ΣΤΗΣΑΤΟΛΑΙΝΕΗΝ
- 5ΕΙΚΟΝΑΔΕΙΜΑΜΕΝΗ leaf
- 6ΜΝΩΟΜΕΝΗΜΕΤΑ
- 7ΠΟΤΜΟΝΟΤ'ΑΝΔΡΑ
- 8ΣΙΝΑΙΝΟΣΑΛΗΘΗΣ leaf
- 9ΤΙΝΕΤΑΙΑΝΔΡΟΜΕ
- 10ΗΣΕΚΤΟΘΙΒΑΣΚΑ
- 11ΝΙΗΣ leaf
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Translation:
This city had made and set up a stone image (of) the wise Eupeithios because of everything, recalling that it is after death that true praise, beyond human envy, is accorded to men.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 III.38.
Photographs:
- Face (1972)
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- Face (1977)
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- View (1993)
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- Face (1993)
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