Description: A white marble columnar statue base shaft (h: 1.67 × diam: 0.48) with a moulded upper rim; the stone is badly weathered, and partly broken away above.
Text: Inscribed very lightly on the upper part of the column.
Letters: Elongated; av. 0.05, phi 0.06; standard sigma and omega; the style appears appropriate to the late third or early fourth century. Boulanger apparently saw traces of red paint in the letters, but none remains.
Date: c. A.D. 324-350. (lettering, content)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, West portico: 'face E(st) du pilier N(ord) ' (Boulanger).
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot, among pieces assembled from French excavations (1994).
Apparatus
2: The first three erased letters remain legible; the rest can safely be resored by comparison with text 5.302.
English translation
Translation source: Smith, 2007
Fl. Zenon, high priest (erased) and comes made and set up (the statue) to the patris
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
With Good Fortune. Fl(avius) Zenon ⟦[high priest and]⟧ comes(?), made (scil. this) and set it up for his homeland.
Commentary
For Flavius Zenon see also 5.302.
Bibliography
Transcription: Boulanger, notebooks, 16 October 1913, A, 71, whence B, 37; New York University expedition
Publication: Roueché, 1981 1 , whence SEG 32.1105 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1984.405 , SEG 35.1082 ; Roueché, ALA 11 whence AE 1990.953, McCabe, PHI, 1996 167 , LSA 189; Erim and Reynolds, 1989. 15a , whence AE 1991.1519, SEG 40.938 , ALA 2004 11; Smith, 2007 B 26 (description); IAph2007 5.301.
Images
Fig. 1. Left side (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 2. Right side (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 3. Front face(Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 4. View (Lenaghan, 1994)
Fig. 5. Top of base (Lenaghan, 1994)
Fig. 6. Boulanger, Notebook A, Page 71
Fig. 7. Squeeze (M. Roueché, 1972)