1.177. Honours for Zenon son of Zenon, wrestler

Description:: A statue base shaft (h. not measured, W. 0.45 x D. 0.45) with moulded panels,
Text:: Inscribed on the face.
Letters:: Standard second-/third-century forms, av. 0.02. Ligatures: ΗΝ, l.3; ΗΝ, l.8; ΗΝ, l.9; ΗΝ, l.10; ΝΗ, l.19.
Date:: Early third century (contests)
Findspot:: Temple/Church: re-used, with other inscribed bases, as vertical elements to support the sanctuary screen of the Temple-church; that screen, which reused elements of an early Byzantine balustrade, was probably constructed in the ninth or tenth century.
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot
History of discovery:: The complete stone was copied by Deering (f. 6 no. 26). Seven fragments were recorded by Gaudin (29b, 29e, 32, 34b, 45 [twice]). One of these (part of Reinach 143) recorded by the MAMA expedition. That fragment, and three others recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:: Published from Deering by Leake, no. 11, whence LBW 1616a, Liermann, Analecta. 27; by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, nos 91, 92, 112, 115, 118, 143: see the reconstruction by J. M. R. Cormack, Inscribed Monuments of Aphrodisias (Reading, 1955), 63, fig.12. Published by Cormack, from the MAMA records and previous publications, MAMA VIII.513; by Roueché, PPA 78.
Text constituted from:: Publications; notebooks; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).

1[Ζήν]ωνα Ζή̣ν̣[ωνος]

2[τ]ο̣ῦ Χάρητος̣ το [ῦ]

3[Ζ]ή νωνος Αἰνείαν̣

4 γένους καὶ ἀξιώ -

5 μ ατος τοῦ πρώ-

6 τε ύοντ ος ἐν τῇ

7 πατρίδι ἱερο -

8 νείκην πλ ειστο-

9 νείκην παράδο-

10 ξον παλαιστὴν

11 vac. πα ῖ δα vac.

12 Μενε̣σθεὺς Ἀ -

13 πολ λωνίου το[ῦ]

14 Με νεσθέως Πα-

15 π [ί]ου Ἰσόβουνος̣

16ἀ̣ρχινεοποιὸς

17 θεᾶς Ἀφροδεί-

18της vac. τὸν συν-

19γενῆ ἐκ τῶν ἰδί -

20ων καθὼς ἀγω-

21νοθετῶν ὑπέ-

22 star σχετο star

1[···]ΩΝΑΖ··[····]

2[·]·ΥΧΑΡΗΤΟ·[··][·]

3[·][·]ΝΩΝΟΣΑΙΝΕΙΑ·

4[··]ΝΟΥΣΚΑΙΑΞΙΩ

5[·]ΑΤΟΣΤΟΥΠΡΩ

6[··]ΥΟΝΤ[··]ΕΝΤΗ

7[·······]ΙΕΡΟ

8[······][··]ΕΙΣΤΟ

9[······][······]

10[···][·········]

11 [··]Ι[··]

12[···]·ΣΘΕΥΣ[·]

13[···]ΛΩΝΙΟΥΤΟ[·]

14[··]ΝΕΣΘΕΩΣ[··]

15[·][·]ΟΥΙΣΟΒΟΥΝΟ·

16·ΡΧΙΝΕΟΠΟΙΟ[·]

17ΘΕΑΣΑΦΡΟΔΕΙ

18ΤΗΣ ΤΟΝΣΥΝ

19ΓΕΝΗΕΚΤΩΝΙΔ[·]

20ΩΝΚΑΘΩΣΑΓΩ

21ΝΟΘΕΤΩΝΥΠΕ

22 star ΣΧΕΤΟ star

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Apparatus

The letters read by Deering, but not by us, have been highlighted

l. 2, At the beginning of the line Deering read ΕΥ.

l. 16, ἀρχινεωποιὸς, in MAMA, is a printing error, since the MAMA expedition did not transcribe this part of the stone.

Translation:

Zenon Aeneas son of Zenon son of Chares son of Zenon, of leading family and rank in the city, sacred victor, frequent victor, extraordinary, boy wrestler. Menestheus Isobounos, son of Apollonios son of Menestheus Papias, chief neopoios of the goddess Aphrodite (put up the statue of) his kinsman, out of his own resources, as he promised while he was agonothete.