87. Third statue for Rhodopaeus Charlotte M. Roueché 2004

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Description of Monument

A white marble statue base shaft, now in at least 7 fragments, with panels within moulded edges on three sides; the back is lost (approx. 0.88 × 0.59 × 0.34).

Description of Text

Inscribed on upper moulding (l.1) and face (ll. 2ff.) of central panel. The last letters of ll. 5 and 13 are cut on the moulding.

Description of Letters

0.025-0.0375; angular and irregular; similar to 86.

Date

Sixth century(prosopography, titulature).

Edition Ἀγαθῇ Τύχῃ· τὸν μεγαλοπρεπέ στατον Ῥοδοπαῖον τὸν φιλόπατριν καὶ ἀρωγὸν τοῦ δήμου, τὸν ἀρχηγὸν τῆς φιλοτιμίας τοῦ θερινοῦ Ὀλυμπί ου λουτροῦ καὶ σιτοδότην ὁ μοῦ δὲ καὶ κτίστην, τὸν ἀνανεωτὴν τῶν ληθαργηθισῶν τέρψαιων, τὸν διὰ πάντα ἡμῶν ἰδίᾳ τε καὶ κοινῇ ἀληθάργητον εὐεργέτην ἀνδριάντι κοσμήσασα τὸ τρίτον ἡ πόλις.
Apparatus

The restorations are all from Sherard's copy.

l. 5. ΑΙΙΙΓΟΝ Sherard; ἄωτον Boeckh, Cormack; ἀρωγόν Robert (and cf. 37, v.9).

l.15. ΠΑΝΤΑ ΙΔΙΑ Sherard; πάντα ἡμῶν ἰδίᾳ Boeckh; πάντα ἡμῶν ἰδίᾳ Cormack.

l.20. ΤΟΤΡΙΤΟΗ Sherard; ΤΟΤΡΙ survives. confirming τὸ τρίτον (Boeckh, Cormack) rather than τῷ τρίτῳ (Robert, tentatively).

Translation To Good Fortune. The magnificentissimus Rhodopaeus, the lover of his country and defender of the people, the originator of the generous gift of the summer Olympian bath, and giver of corn as well as founder, renewer of pleasures that had been forgotten, the never-to-be-forgotten benefactor to us in everything, privately and public—the city has honoured him adorning him with a statue for the third time
Commentary

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

Found

'in a field 200 m north-west of the Temple' MAMA; just south of the path to the West Gate (NYU).

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Findspot; one fragment in Museum.

History of Recording

The complete block copied by Sherard in 1716 (BL Add. 10101, f. 122-3). Six fragments found by the MAMA expedition. Four of those fragments, and one other, found by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published from Sherard by Boeckh, CIG 2804, whence Robert, Hellenica 4, 128, BE 1949.178; from the MAMA records by Cormack, MAMA 8, no. 504, whence BE 1966:401; published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 87 and plate xxii, whence PHI 672.

Text Constituted From

Publications; transcription (Roueché).

Photographs

Upper left corner (1976)

Upper right corner (1976)

Left side, lines 6-13 (1976)

Right side, lines 12-14 (1966)

Left side, lines 14-20 (1976)

Category of Text

honours

Category of Monument

statue base shaft