85. First honours for Rhodopaeus, in verse Charlotte M. Roueché 2003-01-29

English French German Ancient Greek Modern Greek Transliterated Greek Italian Latin Spanish Turkish 2004-06-08Gabriel BodardChecked and fixed all image divs and refs 2004-03-24 Gabriel Bodard Completed lemmatisation, checked figure ids, tagged keywords 2003-11-04John LavagninoConverted beta code to Unicode 2003-07-18 Juan Garcés lemmatised 2003-08-24CMRtagged and corrected2004-01-10CMRchecked; image refs.
Description of Monument

A rectangular statue base shaft, without moulding, of bluish marble, chipped at upper right corner, and broken in two (c. 1.53 × 0.50 × 0.37).

Description of Text

The inscription is laid out with unusual elegance: the epigram itself is cut within a decorative margin, and each couplet is inscribed in four lines (five for the third) with each line starting slightly to the right of the one above, but returning to the margin at the start of the next couplet.

Description of Letters

l. 1. 0.04; ll. 2 - 14, 0025, l. 13. 0.05; neat and rounded, very similar to 88, except for l.1, which is in an angular hand, more like that of 86 and 87.

Date

Sixth century (prosopography).

Edition Ἀγαθῇ Τύχῃ· πολλὰ μέν, ὦ Ῥοδοπαῖε, τεῇ δωρήσαο πάτρῃ πολλὰ τὰ μήτε λέγειν εὔκολα μήτ' ἀριθμεῖν· ἡ δὲ πόλις σε, πάτερ, μεγάλαις δωρήσατο τιμαῖς ἱδρύσασα τεὴν εἰκόνα μαρμαρέην ὅππως μήτ' ὁ χρόνος τὴν σήν, πολυφίλτατε, μορφὴν μηδὲν ἀμαυρώσῃ λήθῃ ἐπισκιάσας. ἐυτυχῶς.
Translation To Good Fortune. You have made many presents to your country, Rhodopaeus, so many that they are not easy to say or to count; and the city has presented you with great honours, father, having set up your image in marble so that time may not obscure your image - you who are loved by many - overshadowing it with forgetfulness. With good fortune!
Commentary

For Rhodopaeus, see 86, 87, and discussion at VI.26.

Found

Hadrianic Baths: East Court: 'Face Est du pylône Nord' (Boulanger).

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Lying loose in the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths.

History of Recording

Excavated by Boulanger, 16 October 1913 (notebook A, 69 no. 6, whence B, 31, no. 6; recorded by J. and L. Robert; recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by L. Robert, Hellenica 4, 127 and plate vii, from Boulanger and his own copy, whence BE 1949.178, BE 1972.473; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 85 and plate xxi, whence PHI 727, Steinepigramme 02/09/22.

Text Constituted From

Boulanger notebooks; publications; transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Upper part (1972)

Lower part (1972)

Top of base (1994)

Representations

Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, p. 69

Category of Text

verse; honours.

Category of Monument

statue base shaft.