5.121. Verse honours for Menandros, ?vicar
- Description:
- A bluish marble columnar statue base shaft, broken below (height H. 1.45. diam. 0.55).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.05-0.06; ll.9, 4, 0.065; elongated and elegantly cut.
- Date:
- A.D. 385/388 (prosopography).
- Findspot:
- Hadrianic Baths: 'Galerie de l'Est—Partie S(ud)' (Boulanger); lying in the southern stretch of the west portico of the South Agora.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1973).
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by the French expedition in 1905, and copied by A. Boulanger in 1913 (notebook A, 49 no. 1, whence B, 10-11, no. 9); copied by J. and L. Robert in 1946; recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published from his own copy and from Boulanger, by •L. Robert, Hellenica 4, 133-5 and plate vi, whence BE 1949.178; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 24 and Plate vii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 723, Steinepigramme 02/09/16.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché); Boulanger; publications. This edition Roueché (2007).
- leaf ἡ βουλὴ τὸν πᾶσι προς|ηνέα τόνδε Μένανδρον |
- πολλῶν ἀντ' ἀγαθῶν | στῆσεν ἀμειβομένη |
- (5) ὃς μεγάλῃ χαρίεντα πόλι | θρεπτήρια τίνων |
- δασμοὺς πρηΰνας πᾶσιν | ἔθηκε φάος leaf
- 1 leaf ΗΒΟΥΛΗΤΟΝΠΑΣΙΠΡΟΣ
- 2ΗΝΕΑΤΟΝΔΕΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΝ
- 3ΠΟΛΛΩΝΑΝΤ'ΑΓΑΘΩΝ
- 4ΣΤΗΣΕΝΑΜΕΙΒΟΜΕΝΗ
- 5ΟΣΜΕΓΑΛΗΧΑΡΙΕΝΤΑΠΟΛΙ
- 6ΘΡΕΠΤΗΡΙΑΤΙΝΩΝ
- 7ΔΑΣΜΟΥΣΠΡΗΥΝΑΣΠΑΣΙΝ
- 8ΕΘΗΚΕΦΑΟΣ leaf
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πολλῶν
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Translation:
The Council, in exchange for many benefits, set up this (statue of) Menandros, who was affable to all, and who, making a welcome repayment for his rearing to the great city, moderated (her) tribute, and established light for all.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 III.22.
Photographs:
- Face (1972)
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- Right side (1972)
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- Face (1973)
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- Face (NYU excavation photo)
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Representations:
- Boulanger, Notebook A, page 49
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- Boulanger, Notebook B, page 10
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- Boulanger, Notebook B, page 11
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