Description:
A plain statue base shaft (H. 1.09 x W. 0.34 x D. 0.34)
Text:
Inscribed on the face; the dedicating authority may have been named on a crowning feature
Letters:
standard second-/third-century forms, 0.025; ligatures: ΗΝ, l.1; ΗΜ, l.10; ΗΝ, l.18; second Σ cut over Ο in l.21.
Date:
c. 208 (contests)
Findspot:
Necropolis, North-east: in the old Turkish cemetery.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by Gaudin (58); by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, no. 146, whence cited by Oikonomos, Arch. Delt. (1921/2), 295. Published by Roueché, PPA 82
Text constituted from:
Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché) This edition Roueché (2007).
1·· ? ··]
2 Ζήνωνα Ζήνω-
3νος τοῦ Ἑρμεί-
4ου νεικήσαντα
5 παίδων στάδι-
6ον τῷ ἐπιτελεσ-
7θέντι ἀγῶνι star
8 τῆς ἐνάτης τε-
9τραετηρίδος
10 Ἀφροδεισιήων
11 Φιλημονιήων
12ἀ̣γωνοθετούν-
13[τ]ων τῶν περὶ
14[Τι]βέριον stop Κλ(αύδιον) stop
15 Ἀπολλώνιον
16 Βερονεικια-
17νὸν Ἀκασσῶ-
18να νεοποιῶν stop
19 τὴν δὲ ἀνάστα-
20σιν τοῦ ἀνδρι-
21άντος ἐποιή-
22σατο Τυχικὸς
23 Φιλήτου τοῦ
24 Ἀπολλωνίου
25 ἐκ τοῦ θέματος stop
1·· ? ··]
2ΖΗΝΩΝΑΖΗΝΩ
3ΝΟΣΤΟΥΕΡΜΕΙ
4ΟΥΝΕΙΚΗΣΑΝΤΑ
5ΠΑΙΔΩΝΣΤΑΔΙ
6ΟΝΤΩΕΠΙΤΕΛΕΣ
7ΘΕΝΤΙΑΓΩΝΙ star
8ΤΗΣΕΝΑΤΗΣΤΕ
9ΤΡΑΕΤΗΡΙΔΟΣ
10ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΣΙΗΩΝ
11ΦΙΛΗΜΟΝΙΗΩΝ
12·ΓΩΝΟΘΕΤΟΥΝ
13[·]ΩΝΤΩΝΠΕΡΙ
14[··]ΒΕΡΙΟΝ stop ΚΛ stop
15ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΝ
16ΒΕΡΟΝΕΙΚΙΑ
17ΝΟΝΑΚΑΣΣΩ
18ΝΑΝΕΟΠΟΙΩΝ stop
19ΤΗΝΔΕΑΝΑΣΤΑ
20ΣΙΝΤΟΥΑΝΔΡΙ
21ΑΝΤΟΣΕΠΟΙΗ
22ΣΑΤΟΤΥΧΙΚΟΣ
23ΦΙΛΗΤΟΥΤΟΥ
24ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ
25ΕΚΤΟΥΘΕΜΑΤΟΣ stop
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Ζήνωνα
Ζήνω
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νος
τοῦ
Ἑρμεί
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ου
νεικήσαντα
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παίδων
στάδι
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ον
τῷ
ἐπιτελεσ
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θέντι
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τῆς
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τε
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τραετηρίδος
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Ἀφροδεισιήων
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γωνοθετούν
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τ
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ων
τῶν
περὶ
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Τι
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βέριον
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Κλ
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αύδιον
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Ἀπολλώνιον
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Βερονεικια
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νὸν
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να
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Translation:

Zenon, son of Zenon son of Hermias, who won the boys' running-race in the contest celebrated for the ninth four-year occurrence of the Aphrodeisiea Philemoniea; the contest-presidents were the neopoioi led by Tiberius Claudius Apollonios Beroneikianos Akasson. Tychicos son of Philetos son of Apollonios undertook the erection of the statue, out of the prize-money.

Commentary:

See bibliography.

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)
Face (1988)
 Face (1988)

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