Description: A white marble block with a decoration of three simple acroteria above a recessed panel within a simple moulding; w: 0.41 × h: 0.42 × d: 0.16-0.21. For a full description see Kontokosta (2008).
Text: Inscribed on panel, and on lower moulding (l.8). It is not clear where the last line would have been inscribed.
Letters: Standard first/second-century forms, c. 0.02
Date: ?Late first/ early second century (lettering, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, North-west: 'on the north side of the city' (Fellows); Stray find in 1976.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
English translation
Translation source: Kontokosta, 2008
Familia of Zeno, son of Hypsicles, son of Hypsicles the natural son of Zeno, Hypsicles, high-priest, of single combatants and convicts and bull-catchers [...]
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
Of Zenon Hypsikles, son of Hypsikles, son of Hypsikles the natural son of Zenon, high-priest, the familia of single combatants and convicts and bull-catchers [...]
English translation
Translation source: Fellows, 1841
The troop of gladiators, convicts, and bull-baiters belonging to Zeno, the high-priest, son of Hypsicles, the son of Hypsicles, the son of Hypsicles, who was by birth the son of Zeno.
Bibliography
Transcription: Fellows, 1840; New York University expedition 76.192)
Publication: PFellows, 1841 20 , whence CIG II.3, 1843 2759b , Liermann, 1889 5, Robert, Gladiateurs 157 ; Roueché, PPA 14 , whence PHI PPAphr 14; IAph2007 11.507, Kontokosta, 2008 2, whence SEG 58.1183.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)