86. Second honours for Rhodopaeus Charlotte M. Roueché 2003-01-29

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Description of Monument

A white marble columnar statue base shaft, broken above, and with the surface lost at the left edge of the text (ll. 1.13, diam. c. 0.44).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Description of Letters

0.02 (omicron) -0.04; angular and irregular, similar to 87.

Date

Sixth century (prosopography).

Edition τὸν ἀληθάργητον εὐ εργέτην τὸν λου τροῖς καὶ σιταρχίαις λοιμὸν καὶ λιμὸν ἀπε λάσαντα Ῥοδοπαῖον τὸν φιλόπατριν ποθοῦ σα πόλεις δευτέρῃ τῇδ' εἰκόνι μαρμάραι κοσμήσασα ἀξίαις ἡμείψατο τιμαῖς.
Apparatus

ll.1 - 2. εὐεργέτην Reinach.

l.9. ἀξίλαις Reinach; there appears to be a fault in the stone after the initial Α.

l.11 Reinach did not record the cross, which was probably not included on the squeeze.

Translation The never-to-be-forgotten benefactor, who, with baths and with command of the corn-supply, drove away plague and famine, Rhodopaeus, lover of his country; the city, loving him, has adorned him with this second marble image, repaying him with worthy honours.
Commentary

For Rhodopaeus, see 85, 87, and discussion at VI.26.

Found

Hadrianic Baths.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Lying in the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths.

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (90); by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published from Gaudin by Reinach, no. 75, whence Robert, Hellenica 4, 127-128, BE 1949.178; discussed by Roueché (1979), 182; published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 86 and plate xxii, whence PHI 671.

Text Constituted From

Publications; Transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Centre (1978)

Right side (1978)

Representations

Squeeze (1978)

Category of Text

honours

Category of Monument

statue base shaft