<rs type="textType">Building dedication</rs> to the Divine Augustus by Eusebes son of Menandros

Joyce M. Reynolds 1980

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Originally published in Reynolds (1980).

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Description of Monument

Three fragments (one lost) from a white marble architrave block cornice or lintel; a broken at both sides (0.49 × 0.36 × 0.25); b: no measurements; c: (0.75 × 0.38 × 0.75) right edge, which is the end of the cornice, survives

Description of Text

Inscribed on two fasciae

Letters

0.05

Date

Julio-Claudian (content, lettering)

Edition Αὐτοκράτο ρι θεῷ Σεβαστῷ Καίσαρι πατρὶ πατρίδοςΕὐσεβὴς Μενάνδρου φιλόπατρις καὶ Εὔνικος Μενάνδρου
Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); Sherard papers; Gaudin's squeeze; publications.

Apparatus

The letters seen only by Sherard are highlighted.

l. 1, ΟΗΘΕΩ Sherard. The final sigma was read by MAMA but not by Reinach.

l.2 Sherard showed a dotted line between ll. 1 and 2 (perhaps indicated the stepping of the fasciae), and a leaf after Εὔνικος.

Translation

To Imperator the god Augustus Caesar, pater patriae, Eusebes son of Menandros, (entitled) lover of his country, and Eunikos, son of Menandros (?gave this)

Commentary

The extensive re-use of material in the area of the Temple means that the findspot may not be significant. But see the discussion by Reynolds, 'Inscriptions and the Building of the Temple', , 38.

Locations

Temple/Church: b and c: 'Non procul a Veneris templo haec fragmenta colligebantur litteris majusculis' (Picenini) ; a and c in the Temple; b not found again. Unknown

History of Recording

b and c were copied in 1705 by Picenini (BM Add 10102, 20 and, from Tisser, 56v), whence Sherard (BM Add 10101 f.31) and ; a and c recorded by Gaudin (72, 73); c recorded by the MAMA expedition; a and c found by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

a and c published (from Gaudin) by Reinach, 192 and 191. B and c published by Boeckh, from Sherard, CIG 2738 and 2773. C published, from the MAMA records by Cormack, MAMA 433; discussed by Reynolds, PCPS 206, 1980, 78, no. 8, whence SEG 1980.1244, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 94;

discussed by Reynolds, 'Inscriptions and the Building of the Temple', Aphrodisias Papers (Ann Arbor, 1990), 37-40, 38.

Photographs

Fragment a (1976)
Fragment c (1976)