Description: A white marble rectangular statue base, chipped along the edges (w: 0.60 × h: 1.68 × d: 0.52). A thick upper moulding has
been chipped away for the re-use of the stone.
Text:
Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.025
Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Martyrion: re-used on its side in the wall between the narthex and the main building. ('Dégagement de la principale basilique', Gaudin)
Original location: Findspot, in secondary use
Last recorded location: Findspot (1973)
Interpretive
ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος καὶ
ἡ γερουσία καὶ οἱ νέοι
ἐτείμησαν καὶ μετηλ-
( vac. 1)λακχότα ( vac. 8)
5 Λυκίδαν Διογένους τοῦ
Λυκίδου Ζήνωνα ταῖς
καλλίσταις τειμαῖς ζή-
σαντα ἐν παιδείᾳ κοσ-
μίως καὶ ἐναρέτως ( vac. 3)
10 τὴν δὲ ἀνάθεσιν τοῦ ἀν-
δριάντος ἐποίησαντο
Διογένης Λυκίδου τοῦ Διο-
γένους νεοποιὸς κα[ὶ]
Ἀμμία Ἑρμογένους τοῦ Ἀ-
15πολλωνίου τοῦ Δημητρί-
ου οἱ γονεῖς αὐτοῦ ((scroll))
Diplomatic
ΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΟΔΗΜΟΣΚΑΙ
ΗΓΕΡΟΥΣΙΑΚΑΙΟΙΝΕΟΙ
ΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΑΝΚΑΙΜΕΤΗΛ
ΛΑΚΧΟΤΑ
5ΛΥΚΙΔΑΝΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣΤΟΥ
ΛΥΚΙΔΟΥΖΗΝΩΝΑΤΑΙΣ
ΚΑΛΛΙΣΤΑΙΣΤΕΙΜΑΙΣΖΗ
ΣΑΝΤΑΕΝΠΑΙΔΕΙΑΚΟΣ
ΜΙΩΣΚΑΙΕΝΑΡΕΤΩΣ
10ΤΗΝΔΕΑΝΑΘΕΣΙΝΤΟΥΑΝ
ΔΡΙΑΝΤΟΣΕΠΟΙΗΣΑΝΤΟ
ΔΙΟΓΕΝΗΣΛΥΚΙΔΟΥΤΟΥΔΙΟ
ΓΕΝΟΥΣΝΕΟΠΟΙΟΣΚΑ[.]
ΑΜΜΙΑΕΡΜΟΓΕΝΟΥΣΤΟΥΑ
15ΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥΤΟΥΔΗΜΗΤΡΙ
ΟΥΟΙΓΟΝΕΙΣΑΥΤΟΥ
Apparatus
The missing letters were seen only by Wood
Translation
The Council and the People and the Gerousia and the Young Men honoured, also after his death, with the finest honours, Lykidas
Zenon son of Diogenes son of Lykidas who lived in education, with elegance and virtue. Diogenes son of Lykidas son of Diogenes,
neopoios, and Ammia daughter of Hermogenes son of Apollonios son of Demetrios, his parents, undertook the erection of the statue.
Bibliography
Transcription: Wood, 1750 14, 48-50 and 14, loose page 44, before the left side had been severely chipped; Reichel, 1893 R.I.24v, R.I.35; Gaudin, 1904 5; New York University expedition SBI 167
Publication: Kubitschek and Reichel, 1893 14 ; Reinach, 1906 62 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 503 , Smith, 2006 H.123 (listed); IAph2007 7.8.
