5.302. Dedication (post mortem) by Flavius Zenon

Description:: A white marble ?masonry block, without features (H. 0.56 × W. 0.30 × D. 0.56).
Text:: Inscribed on one face.
Letters:: Clearly cut in a fluid style; 0.03-0.04; lunate sigma and cursive omega.
Date:: c. A.D. 324-350 (lettering, content).
Findspot:: Hadrianic Baths, East Court: 'Au c(entre) de la cour de l'E(st) devant la face E(st) du pilastre N(ord)'.
Original Location:: Unknown.
Last recorded location:: Unknown.
History of discovery:: 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 McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 168; by •Erim and Reynolds (1991), no. 15b, whence SEG 1990.938
Text constituted from:: Transcription (Roueché);Boulanger notebook. This edition Roueché (2007).

1Φλ(άβιος) Ζήνων ἀρχιερεὺς καὶ

2κόμης ἐποίει καὶ τῇ ἑαυ-

3τοῦ πατρίδι προῖκα κα-

4τὰ διαθήκας διὰ τῶν ἑαυτ(οῦ)

5παίδων ἀνέθηκεν leaf

1ΦΛΖΗΝΩΝΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣΚΑΙ

2ΚΟΜΗΣΕΠΟΙΕΙΚΑΙΤΗΕΑΥ

3ΤΟΥΠΑΤΡΙΔΙΠΡΟΙΚΑΚΑ

4ΤΑΔΙΑΘΗΚΑΣΔΙΑΤΩΝΕΑΥΤ

5ΠΑΙΔΩΝΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ leaf

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Φλ

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άβιος

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Ζήνων

ἀρχιερεὺς

καὶ

κόμης

ἐποίει

καὶ

τῇ

ἑαυ

τοῦ

πατρίδι

προῖκα

κα

τὰ

διαθήκας

διὰ

τῶν

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ἑαυτ

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οῦ

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παίδων

ἀνέθηκεν

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Translation:

Fl(avius) Zenon, 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.