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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<lb n="1" />
<l >
<g type="leaf" />
βουλὴ
τὸν
πᾶσι
προς
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
ηνέα
τόνδε
Μένανδρον
</l>
<lb n="3" />
<l >
πολλῶν
ἀντ'
ἀγαθῶν
<lb n="4" />
στῆσεν
ἀμειβομένη
</l>
<lb n="5" />
<l >
ὃς
μεγάλῃ
χαρίεντα
πόλι
<lb n="6" />
θρεπτήρια
τίνων
</l>
<lb n="7" />
<l >
δασμοὺς
πρηΰνας
πᾶσιν
<lb n="8" />
ἔθηκε
φάος
<g type="leaf" />
</l>
</lg>

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)
 Face (1972)
Right side (1972)
 Right side (1972)
Face (1973)
 Face (1973)
Face (NYU excavation photo)
 Face (NYU excavation photo)

Representations:

Boulanger, Notebook A, page 49
 Boulanger, Notebook A, page 49
Boulanger, Notebook B, page 10
 Boulanger, Notebook B, page 10
Boulanger, Notebook B, page 11
 Boulanger, Notebook B, page 11

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