<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for M. Valerius Epaphrodeitos, singer to the kithara

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble statue base shaft without moulding (1.24 x 0.63-0.61 x 0.65)

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face

Letters

standard second-/third-century forms, 0.025; ligatures, ΚΗΝ (l.6) ΗΝ (l.7).

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (terminology, lettering)

Edition ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος καὶ ἡ γερουσία ἐτείμησαν Μᾶρ κον Οὐαλέριον Ἐπαφρόδε ιτον γένει καὶ π αι δείᾳ διαφέ ρον τα κιθαρῳδ ὸν ἱ ερονείκην π λει στονείκην π αρά δοξον υἱὸν Μάρ κου Οὐαλερί ου Ναρκίσσου π ο λείτου καὶ βο υ λευτοῦ ἀπὸ π ρο γόνων καὶ ἐν πολλ ο ῖς τὴν π α τρίδ α εὐεργε τοῦντος τὴν δὲ ἀνάστασ ι ν τοῦ ἀνδρι άν τος πεποιῆσθ αι Οὐαλέριον Νάρκισ σον τὸν πατέρα
Apparatus

The letters recorded by Sherard, but not by us, are highlighted.

l. 11, ΔΩΞΟΝ Sherard, ΔΟΞΟΝ CIG, lapis.

l. 15, ΛΕΙΤΟΥ Sherard, ΛΕΥΤΟΥ lapis.

In ll.18-19 and 20-1 Sherard recorded the line divisions incorrectly.

Translation

[?The Council and the People] and the Gerousia honoured Marcus Valerius Epaphrodeitos, distinguished by birth and by education, singer to the kithara, sacred victor, multiple victor, extraordinary, son of Marcus Valerius Narkissos, a citizen and a councillor by descent, who has also benefited his fatherland in many ways.

(?It was agreed that) the statue be set up by Valerius Narkissos, the father.

Commentary

For Epaphrodeitos see Stephanis, Διονυσιακοὶ τεχνῖται 850; discussion at PPA no. 68.

Locations

Walls, South (east part): copied by William Sherard on the southern stretch of the city walls. Seen by Kubitschek and Reichel reused in an oil-press at Karaçasu, with the last two lines and the right edge lost (K III page a; Abklatsch 84). Unknown. Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1976 at one end of the old bridge in the town of Karaçasu; the lower part of the stone had been cut and shaped to form a Turkish tombstone. At some time after 1976 it was removed, during rebuilding of the bridge, and we have not succeeded in tracing it.

Text Constituted From

Notebooks; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

Copied by William Sherard in 1705 (BM MS Add. 10101 f. 37); by Kubitschek (KIII, 1), on which see J. M. R. Cormack, The Inscribed Monuments of Aphrodisias, 13; by the NYU expedition in 1976.

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh, from Sherard, CIG 2813, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias; by Roueché, PPA 68.

Photographs

Face (1976)
Face (1976)

Transcriptions

Kubitschek notebook III, 1