Description: A statue base shaft (h. not measured, w: 0.45 × d: 0.45) with moulded panels,
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Standard second-third century forms, av. 0.02.
Date: Early third century (contests)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Temple/Church:
re-used, with other inscribed bases, as vertical elements to support the bema/chancel barrier of the Temple-church; that screen,
which reused elements of an early Byzantine balustrade,
was probably constructed in the ninth or tenth century.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot and Museum
Interpretive
[Ζήν]ωνα Ζή̣ν̣[ωνος]
[τ]ο̣ῦ Χάρητος̣ το[ῦ]
[Ζ]ήνωνος Αἰνείαν̣
γένους καὶ ἀξιώ-
5ματος τοῦ πρώ-
τεύοντος ἐν τῇ
πατρίδι ἱερο-
νείκην πλειστο-
νείκην παράδο
10ξον παλαιστὴν
( vac. 3) παῖδα ( vac. 3)
Μενε̣σθεὺς Ἀ
πολλωνίου το[ῦ]
Μενεσθέως Πα
15π[ί]ου Ἰσόβουνος̣
ἀ̣ρχινεοποιὸς
θεᾶς Ἀφροδεί-
της ( vac. 2) τὸν συν-
γενῆ ἐκ τῶν ἰδί
20ων καθὼς ἀγω-
νοθετῶν ὑπέ-
((star)) σχετο ((star))
Diplomatic
[...]ΩΝΑΖ..[....]
[.].ΥΧΑΡΗΤΟ.ΤΟ[.]
[.]ΗΝΩΝΟΣΑΙΝΕΙΑ.
ΓΕΝΟΥΣΚΑΙΑΞΙΩ
5ΜΑΤΟΣΤΟΥΠΡΩ
ΤΕΥΟΝΤΟΣΕΝΤΗ
ΠΑΤΡΙΔΙΙΕΡΟ
ΝΕΙΚΗΝΠΛΕΙΣΤΟ
ΝΕΙΚΗΝΠΑΡΑΔΟ
10ΞΟΝΠΑΛΑΙΣΤΗΝ
ΠΑΙΔΑ
ΜΕΝ.ΣΘΕΥΣΑ
ΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥΤΟ[.]
ΜΕΝΕΣΘΕΩΣΠΑ
15Π[.]ΟΥΙΣΟΒΟΥΝΟ.
.ΡΧΙΝΕΟΠΟΙΟΣ
ΘΕΑΣΑΦΡΟΔΕΙ
ΤΗΣ ΤΟΝΣΥΝ
ΓΕΝΗΕΚΤΩΝΙΔΙ
20ΩΝΚΑΘΩΣΑΓΩ
ΝΟΘΕΤΩΝΥΠΕ
* ΣΧΕΤΟ *
Apparatus
The letters read by Deering, but not by us, have been highlighted
2: At the beginning of the line Deering read ΕΥ.
16: ἀρχινεωποιὸς, in MAMA, is a printing error, since the MAMA expedition did not transcribe this part of the stone.
English translation
Translation source: Roueché, PPA
Zenon Aeneas son of Zenon son of Chares son of Zenon, of leading family and rank in the city, sacred victor, frequent victor,
extraordinary, boy wrestler. Menestheus Isobounos, son of Apollonios son of Menestheus Papias, chief neopoios of the goddess Aphrodite (put up the statue of) his kinsman, out of his own resources, as he promised while he was agonothete.
Bibliography
Transcription: Deering, 1812, 6 no. 26complete; Gaudin, 1904, fragments 29b, 29e, 32, 34b, 45; Calder, 1934one fragment (32); New York University expedition that fragment, and three others
Publication: Leake, 1843 11 , whence Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1616a , Liermann, 1889 27 ; Reinach, 1906 91, 92, 112, 115, 118, 143 : see the reconstruction by Cormack, 1955 fig.12; MAMA 8 513, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 333 ; Roueché, PPA 78 , whence PHI PPAphr 78, Smith, 2006 H.265 (listed); IAph2007 1.177.
