Architectural block with verse epigram to Apollinarius. Stratonicea (Caria). Later fifth to earlier sixth century.
PROVENANCE AND LOCATION
City:
Stratonicea
Province:
Caria
Region:
Asia Minor
Details:
Stratonicea, south of main city gate in 2006
Current Location:
In situ on excavation site
OBJECT
Object:
Other
Material:
Marble
Re-Use?
Unknown
Form:
Other
Height(cm):
63
Width(cm):
97
Depth(cm):
75
Language:
Greek
Text Type:
Verse
SUBJECT
Honorand:
Apollinarius
Position:
Provincial City Office-Holders
Gender:
Male
Awarder:
Unknown
Position:
DATE
Earliest:
450
Latest :
550
MAIN REFERENCE
Şahin, M. Ç. 'Recent Excavations at Stratonikeia and New Inscriptions from Stratonikeia and its Territory', Epigraphica Anatolica 41, Bonn 2008, 66-7, no. 32 (with photograph)
Şahin, M. Ç. (ed.), The Inscriptions of Stratonikeia, Part III. (Inschriften griechischer Städte aus Kleinasien, bd. 68), Bonn 2010, 65-6, no. 1529
Playing the sweet-sounding kithara, Pindar said that better than the all-nourishing soil and the immortal air and the tireless fire was the gleamingly streaming water alone, which also the blissful were longing for. With this in mind, Apollinarios, father of Stratonike (=Stratonikeia), had the water pipe/aqueduct renewed and brought water for the town and its inhabitants' delight after trouble and and exertion. (Translation: M. Ç. Şahin )
