Description of Monument

A rectangular white marble statue base with panels within moulded edges on three sides (0.97 × 0.485 × 0.38).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the central panel.

Description of Letters

0.03-0.045; 12; ligature in I. 4; sigma lunate in 1. 1, otherwise rectangular.

Date

Mid to late fourth century (lettering).

Edition τὸν σοφὸν ἥδεπόλις Εὐπείθιονεἵνεκα πάντωνστήσατο λαϊνέηνεἰκόνα δειμαμένη μνωομένη μετὰπότμον ὅτ' ἀνδράσιν αἶνος ἀληθὴς τίνεται ἀνδρομέης ἔκτοθι βασκανίης

Translation

This city had made and set up a stone image of the wise Eupeithius because of everything, recalling that it is after death that true praise, beyond human envy, is accorded to men.

Commentary

See discussion at III.38.

Found

Hadrianic baths: at the west side of trench A, in the room north of the tepidarium.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Museum.

History of Recording

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. Sevcenko, (1968), 38 n. 55, whence 1969.543; by Roueché, no. 33 and plate ix, whence 720, 02/09/11.

Text Constituted From

Publication; transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Face (1972)

Face (1977)

View (1993)

Face (1993)

Category of Text

honours; verse

Category of Monument

statue base shaft