5.301. Statue dedication by Flavius Zenon

Description:
A white marble columnar statue base shaft (H. 1.67, diam. 0.48) with a moulded upper rim; the stone is badly weathered, and partly broken away above.
Text:
Inscribed very lightly on the upper part of the column.
Letters:
Elongated; av. 0.05, phi 0.06; standard sigma and omega; the style appears appropriate to the late third or early fourth century. Boulanger apparently saw traces of red paint in the letters, but none remains.
Date:
c. A.D. 324-350 (lettering, content).
Findspot:
Hadrianic Baths, East Court: 'face E(st) du pilier N(ord)' (Boulanger).
Original Location:
Unknown.
Last recorded location:
Hadrianic Baths, East Court: among pieces assembled from French excavations (1994).
History of discovery:
Excavated by Boulanger, 16 October 1913 (notebook A, 71, whence B, 37); recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by •Erim and Roueché (1982), no. 1, whence SEG 1982.1105, BE 1984.405, SEG 1985.1082; by •Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 11 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 167; by •Erim and Reynolds (1991), no. 15a, whence SEG 1990.938.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Roueché); Boulanger notebooks. This edition Roueché (2007).
1Ἀγαθῇ Τύχῃ
2Φλ(άουιος) Ζήνων [[ἀ̣ρ̣χ̣[ιε]]]-
3[[[ρεὺς]] [[καὶ]]] κόμης
4ἐποίει καὶ ἀνέ-
5θηκεν τῇ πα-
6τρίδι leaf
1ΑΓΑΘΗΤΥΧΗ
2ΦΛΖΗΝΩΝ[[···[··]]]
3[·······]ΚΟΜΗΣ
4ΕΠΟΙΕΙΚΑΙΑΝΕ
5ΘΗΚΕΝΤΗΠΑ
6ΤΡΙΔΙ leaf
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Ἀγαθῇ
Τύχῃ
<lb n="2" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Φλ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
άουιος
</supplied>
</expan>
Ζήνων
<del>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ἀρχ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ιε
</supplied>
</del>
<lb n="3" type="worddiv" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
<del>
ρεὺς
</del>
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
<del>
καὶ
</del>
</supplied>
κόμης
<lb n="4" />
ἐποίει
καὶ
ἀνέ
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
θηκεν
τῇ
πα
<lb n="6" type="worddiv" />
τρίδι
<g type="leaf" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l. 2, The first three erased letters remain legible; the rest can safely be resored by comparison with text 5.302.

Translation:

With Good Fortune. Fl(avius) Zenon [high priest and] ?comes, made (this) and set it up for his homeland.

Commentary:

For Flavius Zenon see also 5.302 and discussion at ala2004 II.25.

Photographs:

Left side (1972)
 Left side (1972)
Right side (1972)
 Right side (1972)
Front face(1972)
 Front face(1972)
View (1994)
 View (1994)
Top of base (1994)
 Top of base (1994)

Representations:

Boulanger, Notebook A, Page 71
 Boulanger, Notebook A, Page 71
Squeeze (1972)
 Squeeze (1972)

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