Description: A plain white marble
statue base, with hole and pouring channel on top for the attachment of a crowning feature (w: 0.545 × h: 1.27 × d: 0.54).
Text:
Inscribed on one face. The stone is complete; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.
Letters: lines 1-3, 0.03; lines 5 ff, 0.025. Diaeretic dots around Α in lines 5, 12, possibly 13; around Ε in lines 5, 9, 11 (twice), 12; the Βs in lines 12, 14 are non-standard and slightly different from each other; line above the figure in line 15.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls, West Gate: re-used
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1990)
Interpretive
[ἡ πόλις καλλίσταις καὶ πρεπού-]
σ̣αῖς τειμαῖς ἐτείμησεν
Ζήνωνα Μενίππου τοῦ
Ζήνωνος τοῦ Καλλίου
τὸν Μενίππου καὶ Ζήνω-
5νος πατέρα ἀρχιερέα τα-
μίαν νεοποιὸν καὶ τὰς
ἀλλὰς ἅπασας ἀρχάς τε
καὶ λειτουργίας φιλοτεί-
μως ἐπιτελέσαντα τῇ
10 πατρίδι ((stop)) θαυμασθέντα
ἐπί τε σωφροσύνῃ καὶ ἐπι-
εικείᾳ βίου ((stop)) καὶ ἐπὶ εὐνοίᾳ
τῇ πρὸς τὴν πατρίδα
( vac. 1 line)
ἐπιμεληθέντος Ζηνοβίου
15( vac. 4) δ Ἐπαφροδείτου ( vac. 4)
Diplomatic
[.........................-]
.ΑΙΣΤΕΙΜΑΙΣΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΕΝ
ΖΗΝΩΝΑΜΕΝΙΠΠΟΥΤΟΥ
ΖΗΝΩΝΟΣΤΟΥΚΑΛΛΙΟΥ
ΤΟΝΜΕΝΙΠΠΟΥΚΑΙΖΗΝΩ
5ΝΟΣΠΑΤΕΡΑΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΑΤΑ
ΜΙΑΝΝΕΟΠΟΙΟΝΚΑΙΤΑΣ
ΑΛΛΑΣΑΠΑΣΑΣΑΡΧΑΣΤΕ
ΚΑΙΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΑΣΦΙΛΟΤΕΙ
ΜΩΣΕΠΙΤΕΛΕΣΑΝΤΑΤΗ
10ΠΑΤΡΙΔΙ • ΘΑΥΜΑΣΘΕΝΤΑ
ΕΠΙΤΕΣΩΦΡΟΣΥΝΗΚΑΙΕΠΙ
ΕΙΚΕΙΑΒΙΟΥ • ΚΑΙΕΠΙΕΥΝΟΙΑ
ΤΗΠΡΟΣΤΗΝΠΑΤΡΙΔΑ
vacat
ΕΠΙΜΕΛΗΘΕΝΤΟΣΖΗΝΟΒΙΟΥ
15 ΔΕΠΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΟΥ
Translation
[The city?] honoured with [the finest and] fitting honours Zenon son of Menippos the son of Zenon the son of Kallias, father
of Menippos and Zenon; high priest (scil. of the Imperial cult), treasurer, temple-builder who had also filled all other offices and liturgies for his country zealously.
He was admired for his self-restraint and proper behaviour and for his goodwill towards his country. Zenobios, fourth of the
name from Epaphroditos oversaw (scil. provision of the monument).
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Walls 162
Publication: Smith, 2006 H.151 (listed); IAph2007 12.1011.