16. Verse honours for Helladius Charlotte M. Roueché 2004

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Description of Monument

Four adjoining fragments (together 0.47 × 0.45 × 0.24) of a white marble statue base shaft, with panels within moulded edges on at least three sides; there are traces of an earlier inscription (second century) on the panel to the right. The lower part of the shaft and the upper right corner are lost.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the front panel, which has a rough but deep groove down the left side of the text. The last letter of l.3 is cut on the moulding.

Description of Letters

Av. 0.03; irregular, clear-cut; lunate sigma and epsilon; ligature: second ΝΗ, l.3.

Date

First half of the fourth century (lettering).

Edition τῆς μεγάλης ἀρετῆς τοῦτονμέγαν ἡγεμονῆα Ἑλλάδιον Κᾶρες στῆσανἀμειβόμενοι.
Apparatus

l.1: Cormack wrongly indicated space for letters above this line.

l.6: Cormack's copies showed ΣΙΒΟΑΙ(the last letters only in Kubitschek's copy) whence he restored ἐγερσιβόαι, which Robert rejected. For an independent restoration of ἀμειβόμενοι from the MAMA reading, see Drew-Bear (loc. cit. below).

Translation The Carians set up a statue of this great governor, Helladius, making a return for his great virtue.
Commentary

For Helladius see 17, 18 and List of Governors, Helladius.

For discussion see II.35.

Found

Temple-Church; probably re-used in the Byzantine bema barrier.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Main fragment at findspot; other fragments in Museum.

History of Recording

Main fragment copied by Kubitschek (K V.17; Abklatsch 12); recorded by the MAMA expedition; recorded, with three further fragments (70.2, 70.6, 70.584), by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published, from Kubitschek and the MAMA records, by Cormack, MAMA 8, 531, whence L. Robert, Hellenica 13, 157-158, BE 1966.404, Drew-Bear, REA 82 (1980), 161-164, no. 3 and 182, whence SEG 1981.912, An.Ép. 1981.763; cited by Roueché (1979), 175, note 9, whence SEG 1979.1069; published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 16 and plate v, whence PHI 721, Steinepigramme 02/09/14.

Text Constituted From

Publications; Kubitschek notebook; Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Fragment from right edge, lines 4-5 (1977)

Fragment from right edge, lines 4-5 (1977)

Fragment from right edge, from l. 4 (1977)

Fragment from right edge , lines 1-3 (1977)

Assembled fragments (1977)

Representations

Drawing by Kubitschek, K V.17

Category of Text

honours; governor; verse

Category of Monument

statue base shaft