3. Honorary Inscription for the Soldier Aspar
Description
- Monument: statue base, moulded on top and bottom, drill below the text, connected to a re-use in a fountain; marble
- Dimensions: 1.73 × 0.78 × 0.62
- Text: on the front
- Letters: 0.045 m
- Date: III c. AD (lettering) or V c. AD (SEG, identification with Fl. Ardabur Aspar, consul in 434 AD)
- Found: Stara Zagora (Augusta Traiana), re-used as a fountain
- Original: Stara Zagora, exhibited at the ancient forum
- Text Category: official, honorary, verse
Publication
- Bibliography: Georgius Mihailov, Inscriptiones Graecae in Bulgaria Repertae, vol. III, 2, Serdicae, 1964, no. 1580
- Editorial: The text was encoded following the edition of Mihailov without any additional corrections.
- Publisher: Gavril Katsarov. Text by Nikolay Sharankov, encoded for the Telamon Project by Dimitar Iliev.
Text
[Ἀγ]αθῆι τύχηι. |
Τ̣ὸν κρατερὸν πτολέ|[μ]οισι καὶ ἄτρομον | [ἀ]σπιδιώτην |
Ἄ̣σπαρα χαλκείῃ | ε̣ἰ̣κόνι τῖσε πόλις.
Translation
Good fortune. The city honoured with this bronze statue Aspar, a man strong in battles and a fearless warrior.
На добър час! Градът почете с тази бронзова статуя силния в сражения и неустрашим воин Аспар.
Apparatus
l. 2. [τ]ὸν Kazarow; l. 5: [Ἄ]σπαρα Kaz.; l. 6: [εἰ]κόνι Kaz.
Photographs
Image (2005)
Commentary
The text is an elegiac distich. Note the use of poetical (Homeric) words: κρατερός, πτόλεμος, ἄτρομος, ἀσπιδιώτης, χαλκεῖος. Poetical forms: dative plural πτολέμοισι, Ionic dative χαλκείῃ, aorist without augment τῖσε.
The name Aspar is of Iranian origin.
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