i. <rs type="textType">Verse</rs> <rs type="textType">honours</rs> for <rs type="personType" reg="governor" >Oikoumenios</rs>; ii. <rs type="textType">Invocation</rs>

Charlotte M. Roueché 2007

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Description of Monument

A white marble statue, and a rectangular white marble statue base shaft with panels within moulded edges on three sides (1.27 × 0.60 × 0.53).

Description of Text

i. Inscribed on the central panel of the base; the surface is rough, either because it was badly prepared, or more probably because an earlier inscription had been erased.

ii. Inscribed on the head of the statue, behind the front line of hair, to the left of centre.

Description of Letters

i. Irregular, 0.025-0.04; I. 6. apparently an apostrophe after τῆιδ I. 9, Ω for ων).

ii. Neatly cut.

Date

Later fourth century A.D. (style, language).

Edition
τὸν σὲ νόμων πλήθοντα, τὸν Ἰταλιώτιδα Μοῦσαν Ἀτθίδος ἡδυεπεῖ κιρνάμενον μέλιτι τῆιδ' Οἰκουμένιον τὸν ἀοίδιμον ἡγεμονῆα στῆσε φίλη βουλὴ τῶν Ἀφροδισιέων · τῶι γὰρ δὴ καθαρῶι φρένα καὶ χέρα, τί πλέονεὑρεῖν μνημοσύνης ἀγαθῆς ἄλλο πάρεστι γέρας;
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Translation

i: You who are full of knowledge of laws, who have blended the Italian Muse with the sweet-voiced honey of the Attic, Oikoumenios, the famous governor, the friendly council of the Aphrodisians has set you up here; for what greater reward than that of being well remembered can the man find who is pure in mind and in hand?

ii: ?Mary bore Christ. God, help.

Commentary

For i. see discussion at III.33.

For ii., the inscription on the head, see discussion at VIII.20, and compare 15.102

For the statue and the monument as whole, see Smith 'The Statue Monument of Oecumenius: A New Portrait of a Late Antique Governor from Aphrodisias' (JRS, 2002), 134-156

Locations

Found: North Agora: standing against the north wall of the north stoa. .. Original location: Findspot.. Last recorded location: Findspot (1994)..

History of Recording

The base and the body of the statue were excavated by the NYU expedition in 1965 (base: 65.198); see K. T. Erim in Turk Ark. Derg. 15.1 (1966), 61. The head was excavated in 2000.

Bibliography

Published by Ševcenko (1967), 286, whence BE 1968.508 ; republished by Ševcenko (1968) 29, whence BE 1969.543 ; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, no. 31 and plate ix, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 724 , Steinepigramme 02/09/17 .

Statue: K.T. Erim, 'Two new early Byzantine statues from Aphrodisias', DOP 21 (1967), 285-6, no. 2; Smith (2002) 134-156.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché); Publication.

Photographs

i. Face (1972)
i. Top of base (1994)
i. View (1994)

Representations

i. Squeeze
ii. Inscription on head (drawing, 2001)
Statue and base: Drawing: K. Gorkay, from Smith (2002)