<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for Kandidianos, circuit-victor

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

A plain white marble statue base, moulded on either side, made up of two fragments (0.24 x 1.06 x 0.50); there is a depression on the top for the attachment of the statue. For the statue, see bibliography.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face

Letters

Letters probably third century, rounded epsilon and sigma; l.1, 0.035; l.2, 0.04.

Date

Third century (lettering, sculpture)

Edition Κανδιδιανὸν Ἀτκτεονίκην περιοδονίκην ἡ πατρίς
Apparatus

line 1: Ἀκτιονίκην PPA . The cutter seems to have written ΑΤΤ, and then squeezed a Κ between the two T's.

Translation

The fatherland (honours) Kandidianos, victor at Actia, circuit-victor

Commentary

See commentary at Roueché, PPA 74.

Locations

Theatre stage Theatre, north analemma Museum, reassembled with statue

Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1968 and 1971 (excavation inventory nos. 68.400) and 1971 (71.167)

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, PPA 74; published, with the statue, by Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, no. 40

Photographs

Complete (1989)
Complete (2000)
Left end (1978)
Right end (1978)
Statue and base (2004)