5.108. Dedication of image of the Hours by Zenon and Apphia
- Description:
- White marble statue base shaft with moulding below (W. 0.50 × H. 1.12 × D. 0.54).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.03
- Date:
- First to second centuries A.D. (nomenclature, lettering)
- Findspot:
- in the Hadrianic Baths
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- in the debris in East court of the Hadrianic Baths
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Gaudin (7); recorded by Mendel/Boulanger (notebook A 41, no.2); found again by the NYU expedition (SBI 135)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reinach, 19, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 158.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 Ἀφροδείτῃ θεᾷ
- 2 ἐπιφανεστάτῃ
- 3 καὶ τῇ πατρίδι
- 4Ζήνων Ζήνωνος
- 5 τοῦ Ζήνωνος τοῦ
- 6Ἀρτέμωνος τοῦ
- 7Αἰνήου νεοποιῶν
- 8 τὰς Ὥρας ἐκ τῶν
- 9 ἰδίων ἀνέθηκεν
- 10 σὺν καὶ Ἀπφίᾳ
- 11Ἀδράστου τῇ γυ-
- 12ναικὶ καὶ Ζήνωνι
- 13 καὶ Μενάνδρῳ
- 14 scroll τοῖς υἱοῖς scroll
- 1ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΘΕΑ
- 2ΕΠΙΦΑΝΕΣΤΑΤΗ
- 3ΚΑΙΤΗΠΑΤΡΙΔΙ
- 4ΖΗΝΩΝΖΗΝΩΝΟΣ
- 5ΤΟΥΖΗΝΩΝΟΣΤΟΥ
- 6ΑΡΤΕΜΩΝΟΣΤΟΥ
- 7ΑΙΝΗΟΥΝΕΟΠΟΙΩΝ
- 8ΤΑΣΩΡΑΣΕΚΤΩΝ
- 9ΙΔΙΩΝΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ
- 10ΣΥΝΚΑΙΑΠΦΙΑ
- 11ΑΔΡΑΣΤΟΥΤΗΓΥ
- 12ΝΑΙΚΙΚΑΙΖΗΝΩΝΙ
- 13ΚΑΙΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΩ
- 14 scroll ΤΟΙΣΥΙΟΙΣ scroll
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Ἀφροδείτῃ
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Translation:
To Aphrodite, most apparent goddess, and the homeland. Zenon son of Zenon son of Zenon son of Artemon son of Aineas, being neopoios, dedicated the Hours from his own means, with his wife Apphia daughter of Adrastos, and his sons Zenon and Menandros.
Commentary:
5.109 is an identical text, with the first two lines erased.
- Photographs:
- none.
Representations:
- Boulanger, notebook A, page 41
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