Description:
White marble
statue base without moulding; surviving fragment only (w: 0.38 × h: 0.36 × d: 0.22).
Text:
Inscribed on one face.
Letters: 0.03
Date: Second to third centuries C.E.; perhaps third century in view of the wife's nomen. (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls, South-east stretch: seen complete re-used in the south-east stretch in 1750,
but a fragment was found in Karaçasu in 1840.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Walls (1934) and Karaçasu (1840).
Interpretive
[------]
τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου
Ζηνᾶν γενάμενον
νεοποιὸν δὶς τῆς
θεοῦ Ἀφροδείτης ἄ[ρ-]
5ξ̣αντα κα̣ὶ τὴν πρώ-
την̣ ἀρχὴν ἐνδόξως
καὶ εἰρηναρχήσαντα
κα̣ὶ τὰς λοιπὰς λιτουρ-
γίας φιλοτείμως ἐκ-
10τελέσαντα καὶ πα-
ρασχόντα ἑαυτὸν
χρήσιμον τῇ πατρί-
δι καὶ εἰ[ς σ]υνδικίας
δημοσίων πραγμά-
15( vac. 5)των ( vac. 5)
τὴν δὲ ἀνάστασιν
τοῦ ἀνδριάντος [ἐ-]
ποιήσατο Αὐρηλία
Ἀμαζονὶς ἡ γυνὴ
20αὐτοῦ παρ' ἑαυτῆς ((stop)) ( vac. 1) ((leaf))
Diplomatic
[------]
ΤΟΥΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ
ΖΗΝΑΝΓΕΝΑΜΕΝΟΝ
ΝΕΟΠΟΙΟΝΔΙΣΤΗΣ
ΘΕΟΥΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΣΑ[.-]
5.ΑΝΤΑΚ.ΙΤΗΝΠΡΩ
ΤΗ.ΑΡΧΗΝΕΝΔΟΞΩΣ
ΚΑΙΕΙΡΗΝΑΡΧΗΣΑΝΤΑ
Κ.ΙΤΑΣΛΟΙΠΑΣΛΙΤΟΥΡ
ΓΙΑΣΦΙΛΟΤΕΙΜΩΣΕΚ
10ΤΕΛΕΣΑΝΤΑΚΑΙΠΑ
ΡΑΣΧΟΝΤΑΕΑΥΤΟΝ
ΧΡΗΣΙΜΟΝΤΗΠΑΤΡΙ
ΔΙΚΑΙΕΙ[..]ΥΝΔΙΚΙΑΣ
ΔΗΜΟΣΙΩΝΠΡΑΓΜΑ
15 ΤΩΝ
ΤΗΝΔΕΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΝ
ΤΟΥΑΝΔΡΙΑΝΤΟΣ[.-]
ΠΟΙΗΣΑΤΟΑΥΡΗΛΙΑ
ΑΜΑΖΟΝΙΣΗΓΥΝΗ
20ΑΥΤΟΥΠΑΡΕΑΥΤΗΣ • ❦
Apparatus
4: ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΣ Wood, 1750
14: ΔΗΜΟ . . . . Wood, 1750
18: At the beginning of the line Cormack assumed ΕΠΟΙ, but Sherard Wood and Fellows all give ΠΟI
18ff: Wood discerned these lines, but could read no letters after ΠΟΙΗΣ, and writes 'defaced'
Translation
[------] Zenas [---] son of Apollonios, who had been twice temple-builder of the goddess Aphrodite, had held the senior archonship with distinction,
and the office of irenarch and the remaining liturgies generously and shown himself useful to his city also in the smaller public business at law. Aurelia
Amazonis, his wife, carried out the erection of the statue from her own means.
Bibliography
Transcription: Complete: Sherard, 1705 42; Wood, 1750 14, 57, 14, loose page 47; Fragmentary: Fellows, 1840 (opening letters of lines 11-20) in Karaçasu; Calder, 1934 (left side of lines 1-8). It is probable that the text copied by Sherard and Wood was on a complete block. Wood comments
'beginning lost', but this is likely to refer to the text which, as in many other instances, may well have begun on a crowning
feature
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2768 ; Fellows, 1841 12 (the Karaçasu fragment) , whence CIG II.3, 1843 2851c; the fragments discussed Cormack, 1955 4, 9-10, and 55 fig. 1; MAMA 8 520 (complete text) , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 332 , Smith, 2006 H.157 (listed); IAph2007 12.521.
