<rs type="textType">Verse</rs> <rs type="textType">honours</rs> for Eupeithios

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (2004).

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Description of Monument

A rectangular white marble statue base shaft with panels within moulded edges on three sides (0.97 × 0.485 × 0.38).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the central panel.

Description of Letters

0.03-0.045; 12; ligatured ΗΝ in I. 4; sigma lunate in 1. 1, otherwise rectangular.

Date

Mid to late fourth century (lettering).

Edition τὸν σοφὸν ἥδεπόλις Εὐπείθιονεἵνεκα πάντωνστήσατο λαϊνέηνεἰκόνα δειμαμένη μνωομένη μετὰπότμον ὅτ' ἀνδράσιν αἶνος ἀληθὴς τίνεται ἀνδρομέης ἔκτοθι βασκανίης
Translation

This city had made and set up a stone image of the wise Eupeithios because of everything, recalling that it is after death that true praise, beyond human envy, is accorded to men.

Commentary

See discussion at III.38.

Locations

Hadrianic baths: at the west side of trench A, in the room north of the tepidarium. Unknown. Museum (1993)..

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1966 (66.542; SBI 4). The plinth of the accompanying statue, with a fragment of a foot and the edge of a chlamys was found with the base.

Bibliography

. Published by I. Ševcenko, Synthronon (1968), 38 n. 55, whence BE 1969.543; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 33 and plate ix, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 720, Steinepigramme 02/09/11.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Roueché); Publication.

Photographs

Face (1972)
Face (1977)
View (1993)
Face (1993)