17-Honoring Opramoas of Rhodiapolis
 
FBA2022-6013
Project 6013: 17 Inventory No:  AC-13
Coordinat 36°31'25.92" N / 30°33'7.13" E
Measurement Accuracy
1 m in areas with dense vegetation 
Location in-situ           incertus
Found In In front of the main entrance of the Tetragonal Agora
Date Range II century AD
Material Rectangular base with limestone profile
Measures height: 1.19 m; width: 0.59 m; depth: 0.67 m
Inscription Contents    
Hellenic
Translation
"... 12,500 for the distribution to our city and for the embassy of the feast, who held offices in all the cities of Lycia
Opramoas, a citizen of the cities of Rhodiapolis, Myra and Phaselis, grandson of Apollonios, son of Kalliades, who donated the denarius
(Tüner Önen, 2008:333-336)."
Letter Attribute 
Letter Character In standard form Letter Height (1. Line-) 0,038 m; (2-9. Line-) 0,032
m; (10. Line-) 0,03 m.
Conservation Status of the Inscription Bearer
1 Intervention Date Consevation Team Materials Used Changes Made
Pre-conservation view  Post-conservation view Analysis
Edition
: CIG 4324; Bérard 1892, 441 nr. 90; Le Bas-Waddington 1972, nr. 1341; TAM II
1203; Blackman 1981, 161 vdd. (lev. 70, 2); SEG XXXI, 338 vd., nr. 1301; Adak – Tüner –
Ţahin 2005, 12 vdd. nr. 9.; Tüner Önen, 2008, 333-336, nr. 26.
Text Commentary
"Line- 1 - - - - - - - - - - ἐτ]ει[μῆ]σεν Blackman.
Line- 3/4 Ῥοδιο-|πολείτην, Bérard.
Line- 6 πολιτευόμενος καὶ ἐν ταῖς κατὰ Λυκίαν πόλεσι πάσαις to the Lycian League
in inscriptions that mention people who have served. Opramoas is one of them.
Line- 8 Kalinka rendered it as διαν[ομάς], a rendering confirmed by Blackman. The new fragment shows that this part should be understood as singular accusativus.
Line- 10 The μ in this line was seen only by Bérard, but the -α in the new fragment supports Bérard's reading. Blackman found that the gap on the right is about 29 cm, and since line 10 is written in smaller characters, a completion of about 12 letters could be made here. The new fragment proves Blackman's estimate to be correct.
 Line- 11 Blackman states that there is a one-letter gap on the block before the alpha. However, he suggests that if the right corners of the two blocks are assumed to be aligned, another 7.5 cm should be added to the end of line 11 when moving from inscription 1203 to 1220, so that the space of 4 or 5 letters before the alpha could be completed as χείλι]α, in this case, line 10 could also be completed to form the elevations of the χείλια as a proposal. Blackman turned out to be right in this prediction, but There is only a 2 letter completion before alpha, δισχεί|[λι]α, not 5. This is called According to the inscription, the amount in question here is 12,500 denarii. Among the works and aid listed by Opramoas in the famous Rhodiapolis inscription, his aid to Phaselis is not clear. No details are given in the Rhodiapolis inscription, so it is not certain that both inscriptions refer to the same euergesia. Opramos gave enormous amounts of aid to all Lycian cities. The dates of these aids especially coincide with the years 141-152/153 AD. Especially A.D. After the great earthquake disaster that took place between 142-143 AD and destroyed Lycia He then spent a great deal of money to compensate for the damages suffered by those cities. Opramoas, whose works and aids are listed on the walls of the tomb monument in Rhodiapolis, helped 28 Lycian cities1437. The location of the statue of Opramoas in the city is in accordance with these works of the famous euergetes (Tüner Önen, 2008:333-336). "
Bibliography
1 Akçay, A 2016, New Technological Approaches Used in Cultural Heritage Research: The Case of Phaselis Inscriptions. Unpublished Master's Thesis, Akdeniz University. Antalya.
Research Status
Research and development studies are ongoing within the scope of FBA2022-6013.