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24. Verse honours for Menander, ?vicar

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Description

  • Monument: A bluish marble columnar statue base shaft, broken below (height 1.45. diam. 0.55).
  • Text: Inscribed on the face.
  • Letters: 0.05-0.06; ll.9, 4, 0.065; elongated and elegantly cut.
  • Date: AD 385/388 (prosopography).

Text [Font help][Conventions]

     leaf ἡ βουλὴ τὸν πᾶσι προς|ηνέα τόνδε Μένανδρον |
     πολλῶν ἀντ' ἀγαθῶν | στῆσεν ἀμειβομένη |
     (5) ὃς μεγάλῃ χαρίεντα πόλι | θρεπτήρια τίνων |
     δασμοὺς πρηΰνας πᾶσιν | ἔθηκε φάος leaf

Translation

The Council, in exchange for many benefits, set up this (statue of) Menander, who was affable to all, and who, making a welcome repayment for his rearing to the great city, moderated (her) tribute, and established light for all.

Photographs

Face (1972) Right side (1972) Face (1973) Face (NYU excavation photo)
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Representations

Boulanger, Notebook A, page 49
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Commentary

See discussion at III.22.

Locations

  • Found: Hadrianic Baths: "Galerie de l'Est—Partie S(ud)" (Boulanger); lying in the southern stretch of the west portico of the South Agora.
  • Original: Unknown.
  • Last Recorded: Findspot.

History

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