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85. First honours for Rhodopaeus, in verse

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Description

  • Monument: A rectangular statue base shaft, without moulding, of bluish marble, chipped at upper right corner, and broken in two (c. 1.53 × 0.50 × 0.37).
  • Text: The inscription is laid out with unusual elegance: the epigram itself is cut within a decorative margin, and each couplet is inscribed in four lines (five for the third) with each line starting slightly to the right of the one above, but returning to the margin at the start of the next couplet.
  • Letters: l. 1. 0.04; ll. 2 - 14, 0025, l. 13. 0.05; neat and rounded, very similar to 88, except for l.1, which is in an angular hand, more like that of 86 and 87.
  • Date: Sixth century (prosopography).

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     Ἀγαθῇ Τύχ[ῃ]· |
     πολλὰ μέν, ὦ Ῥοδοπαῖε, | τεῇ δωρήσαο πάτρῃ |
        πολλὰ τὰ μήτε λέγειν | (5) εὔκολα μήτ' ἀριθμεῖν· |
     ἡ δὲ πόλις σε, πάτερ, | μεγάλαις δωρήσατο τιμαῖς |
        ἱδρύσασα τεὴν εἰκόνα | μαρμαρέην |
5 (10) ὅππως μήτ' ὁ χρόνος | τὴν σήν, πολυφίλτατε, | μορφὴν
        μηδὲν | ἀμαυρώσῃ λήθῃ | ἐπισκιάσας. |
     vacat |
     (15) ἐυτυχῶς.

Translation

To Good Fortune. You have made many presents to your country, Rhodopaeus, so many that they are not easy to say or to count; and the city has presented you with great honours, father, having set up your image in marble so that time may not obscure your image - you who are loved by many - overshadowing it with forgetfulness. With good fortune!

Photographs

Upper part (1972) Lower part (1972) Top of base (1994)
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Representations

Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, p. 69
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Commentary

For Rhodopaeus, see 86, 87, and discussion at VI.26.

Locations

  • Found: Hadrianic Baths: East Court: 'Face E(st) du pylône N(ord)' (Boulanger).
  • Original: Unknown.
  • Last Recorded: Lying loose in the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths.

History

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