i. <rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for Pyrron son of Itharos; ii. <rs type="textType">Verse</rs> honours for Hermias, benefactor

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 (0.56 × 1.24 × 0.50) with panels within moulded edges on all four sides.

Description of Text

Cut on opposite faces within the panels (1.08 × 0.46); the upper edge is complete, although the right side of i. (= left side of ii.) is broken away. Text i. must have begun on a crowning feature.

Description of Letters

i. 0.02; ligatures: MNH l. 8, TH l. 8, NN l. 10, NT l. 13, HN l. 20. ii. 0.03-0.07; very irregular, clearly cut.

Date

i. Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering); ii. Late fifth/sixth century (language, lettering).

Edition
καὶ οἱ χρυ σοφόροι νεοποιοὶ τῆς ἁγιωτάτης θεοῦ Ἀφροδείτης παρὰ τῇ ἀσύλῳ θεῷ κατὰ τὰ δοξαντα διά τε ψηφισμάτων καὶ ὑπομνημάτων τῆς κρατίστης βουλῆς τὸν ἁγνότατον νεωκορον τῆς θεοῦ Ἀφροδείτης καὶ πιστότατὸν οἰκονόμον τῆς πόλεως Πύρρωνα Ἰθάρου τοῦ Ἰθάρου τρὶς τοῦ Μενιπ που εὐνοίας καὶ πίστεως καὶ εἰλικρινείας καὶ εὐσεβείας τῆς περὶ τὴν θεὸν εἵνεκα ἐπιμελησαμένου τῆς ἀναστάσεως τοῦ ἀνδρίαντος Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Αἰλίου Ἀντωνίου Βενουσείνου Διογένους τοῦ Σολωνος τοῦ ἄρχοντος τῆς κρατίστης βουλῆς
χρυσῶν χιλιάδας τρῖς ὤπασε τῶιδε λοετρῶι Ἑρμίας κὲ μνῆστιν ἀειζώουσαν ἐφεῦρεν .
Apparatus

i. l. 1, νεωποιοὶ LR, D-B.

i. l. 3, θεᾶς LR, θεοῦ D-B

i. l. 12, καὶ om. LR

i. l. 12, the second sigma was not read by Boulanger; it was omitted by the mason, and then inserted very lightly.

i. l. 14, ΠΥΡΡΩΝΑ JMR, D-B, lapis; Εὔφρωνα Boulanger, whence LR.

i. l. 18, ΕΙΛΙ Boulanger, corrected by LR

i. l. 27, ΓΕΝΟΥΣΕΙΝΟΥ Boulanger (A) whence γένους Εὐνου (B).

Translation

i. [ . . . ] and the chrysophoroi neopoioi of the most holy god Aphrodite (put up) beside the God who is asylos, according to the decisions conveyed by decrees and instructions of the most powerful Council, the (statue of the) most pure neokoros of the goddess Aphrodite and most trustworthy oikonomos of the City, Pyrron son of Itharos (son of Itharos son of Itharos) son of Menippos, on account of his goodwill andgood faith and integrity and piety towards the God. Marcus Aurelius Aelius Antoninos son of Diogenes son of Solon, archon of the most powerful Council, was responsible for the erection of the statue.

ii. Hermias gave three thousands of gold to this bath, and obtained an everliving fame lit. memory.

Commentary

i. No commentary yet (2007)

ii. See discussion at V.51, V.53.

Locations

Found: Hadrianic Baths, East court: 'Cour de l'E(st) face S.' (Boulanger, notebook A); 'Portique s(ud)' (notebook B). . Original location: Findspot.. Last recorded location: Hadrianic Baths: southern colonnade of the East Court (2004).

History of Recording

Excavated by Mendel in 1905; recorded by Boulanger (notebook A, 58 no. 15 & 59 no. 16, whence B, 7, no. 6 & 9, no. 7); recorded by J. and L. Robert; recorded by the NYU expedition (Baths 4, SBI 137a).

Bibliography

i. (lines 1-17) from Boulanger's copy by L. Robert, Etudes Anatoliennes (Paris, 1937), 299, n. 2, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 275 . ii. Published by Grégoire, IGC 277, from Mendel; by Robert, Hellenica 4, 130 and plate, whence BE 1949.178; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 74 and plate xviii, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 705, Steinepigramme 02/09/15.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Drew-Bear; Reynolds; Roueché); Boulanger notebooks; publication.

Photographs

Face i (1978)
Face i (1978)
Text ii (1972)
View of base showing ii (1994)
Face ii and top (2004)
Top of base (1994)

Representations

Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, 58
Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, 59
Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook B, 7
Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook B, 9