Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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12. Dedication (post mortem) by Flavius Zeno
Description
- Monument:
A white marble block, without features (0.56 × 0.30 × 0.56).
- Text:
Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
Clearly cut in a fluid style; 0.03-0.04; lunate sigma and cursive omega.
- Date:
Fourth century (lettering, content).
Text
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Φλ(άβιος) Ζήνων ἀρχιερεὺς καὶ
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κόμης ἐποίει καὶ τῇ ἑαυ-
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τοῦ πατρίδι προῖκα κα- |
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τὰ διαθήκας διὰ τῶν ἑαυτ(οῦ) |
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παίδων ἀνέθηκεν leaf
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Translation
Fl(avius) Zeno, high priest and comes, made this and set it up for his own homeland at his own expense, according to (the terms of) his will (carried out) by his own children.
Photographs
| Face (1972) |
Top of block (1994) |
Side of block (1994) |
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Representations
| Transcription by Boulanger: Notebook A, page 55 |
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Commentary
For Flavius Zeno see 11, and discussion at II.25.
Locations
- Found:
Hadrianic Baths: 'Au c(entre) de la cour de l'E(st) devant la face E(st) du pilastre N(ord)'.
- Original:
Unknown.
- Last Recorded:
Unknown.
History
- Recording:
Excavated by Mendel in 1905 (Boulanger notebook A, 55; whence B 3); recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
Published by •Erim & Roueché, PBSR 50, 1982, 103-104, no. 2 whence SEG 1982.1106, BE 1984.405, SEG 1985.1082; published by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 12, whence PHI 168; by •Erim and
Reynolds (1991), no. 15b, whence SEG 1990.938
- Text constituted from:
Boulanger notebook; copy (Roueché).
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