Description: A white marble masonry block , without features (w: 0.30 × h: 0.56 × d: 0.56).
Text: Inscribed on one face.
Letters: Clearly cut in a fluid style; 0.03-0.04; lunate sigma and cursive omega.
Date: c. 324-350 CE (lettering, content)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, West portico: 'Au c(entre) de la cour de l'E(st) devant la face E(st) du pilastre N(ord) '.
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot
English translation
Translation source: Smith, 2007
Fl. Zenon, high priest and comes, made and set up (the statue) to his own patris, according to (the terms) of his will, (carried out) by his own children
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
Fl(avius) Zenon, high priest and comes, made this and set it up for his own homeland at his own expense, according to (scil. the terms of) his will (scil. carried out) by his own children.
Commentary
For Flavius Zenon see also 5.301.
Bibliography
Transcription: Mendel, 1905; Boulanger, notebooks A, 55, whence B, 3; New York University expedition in 1972
Publication: Roueché, 1981 2 whence SEG 32.1106 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1984.405 , SEG 35.1082 ; Roueché, ALA 12 , whence AE 1990.954, McCabe, PHI, 1996 168 , LSA 190; Erim and Reynolds, 1989 15b , whence AE 1991.1520, SEG 40.938 ; ALA 2004 12; Smith, 2007 B 27 (description); IAph2007 5.302.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 2. Top of block (Lenaghan, 1994)
Fig. 3. Side of block (Lenaghan, 1994)
Fig. 4. Boulanger, Notebook A, page 55