ἀντ' εὐεργεϲίηϲ καὶ | ὧν δωρήϲατο πά|τρηι
Εὐγένιον τάξιϲ | ϲτῆϲεν ἀμιβομένη.
Description: A white marble statue base shaft (w: 0.535 × h: 1.48 × d: 0.41) with a central recessed panel.
Text: Inscribed on the central, recessed face.
Letters: 0.025-0.03; lunate forms, neat and rounded, very similar to 5.16.
Date: Sixth century. (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, North portico: 'Portique N(ord) ' (Boulanger).
Original location: Hadrianic Baths.
Last recorded location: Among the material from the French excavations piled in the East Court.
ἀντ' εὐεργεϲίηϲ καὶ | ὧν δωρήϲατο πά|τρηι
Εὐγένιον τάξιϲ | ϲτῆϲεν ἀμιβομένη.
ΑΝΤΕΥΕΡΓΕϹΙΗϹΚΑΙ | ΩΝΔΩΡΗϹΑΤΟΠΑ |ΤΡΗΙ
ΕΥΓΕΝΙΟΝΤΑΞΙϹ | ϹΤΗϹΕΝΑΜΙΒΟΜΕΝΗ
Apparatus
4: After cutting the first Σ of στῆσεν the inscriber began to cut a cross bar, as for Ε.
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
In return for his benefaction, and for the gifts he has made to his country, the ordo set up (scil. a statue of) Eugenios, in repayment.
German translation
Translation source: Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998
Der Rat hat Eugenios aufgestellt, in dankbarer Erwiderung der Wohltaten, welche er der Heimatstadt erwiesen hat.
Bibliography
Transcription: Boulanger, notebooks, 30 October 1913, A, 78, no. 22, whence B, 39 no. 22; J. and L. Robert, 1946; New York University expedition
Publication: Robert, Hellenica IV from Boulanger's copy and his own 133 and plate v, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1949.178 , Drew-Bear, 1980, 163; Roueché, ALA 88, and plate xxiii, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 719 , Merkelbach and Stauber, 1998 02/09/10, LSA 186 ALA 2004 88; Smith, 2007 B 38 (description); IAph2007 5.18.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1975)
Fig. 2. Detail (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 3. Top of base (Lenaghan, 1994)
Fig. 4. Transcription by Boulanger, Notebook A, p. 78