Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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31. Verse honours for Oecumenius; 254. Invocation
Description
- Monument:
A white marble statue, and a rectangular white marble statue base with panels within moulded edges on three sides (1.27 × 0.60 × 0.53).
- Text:
31: Inscribed on the central panel of the base; the surface is rough, either because it was badly prepared, or more probably
because an earlier inscription had been erased.
254: Inscribed on the head of the statue, behind the front line of hair, to the left of centre.
- Letters:
31: Irregular, 0.025-0.04; I. 6. apparently an apostrophe after τῆιδ I. 9, Ω for ω(ν)).
254: Neatly cut.
- Date:
Later fourth century (style, language).
Text
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τὸν σὲ νόμων πλή|θοντα, τὸν Ἰταλι|ώτιδα Μοῦσαν v.
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v. Ἀτθίδος ἡδυεπεῖ | (5)
v. κιρνάμενον μέλιτι |
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τῆιδ' Οἰκουμένιον | τὸν ἀοίδιμον ἡγεμο|νῆα v.
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στῆσε φίλη | βουλὴ τῶν Ἀφροδισιέω(ν)· |
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(10) τῶι γὰρ δὴ καθαρῶι φρέ|να καὶ χέρα, τί πλέον | εὑρεῖν v.
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μνημοσύ|νης ἀγαθῆς ἄλλο πά|ρεστι γέρας; leaf
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254
Translation
31: You who are full of (knowledge of) laws, who have blended the Italian Muse with the sweet-voiced honey of the Attic, Oecumenius, the famous governor, the friendly
council of the Aphrodisians has set you up here; for what greater reward than that of being well remembered can the man find
who is pure in mind and in hand?
254: ?M(ary) b(ore) Ch(rist). God, help.
Photographs
| 31: Face (1972) |
31: Top of base (1994) |
31: View (1994) |
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Representations
| 31: Squeeze |
254: Inscription on head (drawing, 2001) |
Statue and base: Drawing: K.Gorkay, from Smith (2002) |
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Commentary
For Oecumenius see List of Governors Oecumenius. For 31, see discussion at III.33. For the statue and the monument as whole, see Smith 'The Statue Monument of Oecumenius: A New Portrait of a Late Antique Governor from Aphrodisias' (JRS, 2002), 134-156. For 254, the inscription on the head, see discussion at VIII.20, and compare 145
Locations
- Found:
North Agora: standing against the north wall of the north stoa. See plan 1.
- Original:
Findspot.
- Last Recorded:
Findspot.
History
- Recording:
The base and the body of the statue were excavated by the NYU expedition in 1965 (base: 65. 198); see K. T. Erim in Turk Ark. Derg. 15.1 (1966), 61. The head was excavated in 2000.
- Bibliography:
Published by •Sevcenko (1967), 286, whence BE 1968.508; republished by •Sevcenko (1968) 29, whence BE 1969.543; by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity, no. 31 and plate ix, whence PHI 724, Steinepigramme 02/09/17.
Statue: K.T. Erim, ''Two new early Byzantine statues from Aphrodisias'', DOP 21 (1967), 285-6, no. 2; Smith (2002) 134-156.
- Text constituted from:
Publication; transcription (Roueché).
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