7.8. Posthumous honours for Lykidas Zenon

Description:: A white marble rectangular statue base, chipped along the edges (W. 0.60 × H. 1.68 × D. 0.52). A thick upper moulding has been chipped away for the re-use of the stone.
Text:: Inscribed on one face.
Letters:: 0.025
Date:: First to second centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:: Martyrion: re-used on its side in the wall between the narthex and the main building. ('Dégagement de la principale basilique', Gaudin)
Original Location:: Unknown
Last recorded location:: Findspot (1973)
History of discovery:: Copied by Wood (14, 45v), before the left side had been severely chipped; by Reichel (R I.24v, I, 35); recorded by Gaudin (5); by the NYU expedition (SBI 167).
Bibliography:: Published by Kubitschek & Reichel, AAWW 1893, 103, no. 14; by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, 62, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 503 .
Text constituted from:: Transcription (Reynolds); publications; Wood; Gaudin's squeeze. This edition Reynolds (2007).

1 ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος καὶ

2 ἡ γερουσία καὶ οἱ νέοι

3 ἐτείμησαν καὶ μετηλ-

4 v. λακχότα vacat

5 Λυκίδαν Διογένους τοῦ

6 Λυκίδου Ζήνωνα ταῖς

7 καλλίσταις τειμαῖς ζή-

8 σαντα ἐν παιδείᾳ κοσ-

9 μίως καὶ ἐναρέτως vac.

10 τὴν δὲ ἀνάθεσιν τοῦ ἀν-

11 δριάντος ἐποίησαντο

12 Διογένης Λυκίδου τοῦ Διο-

13 γένους νεοποιὸς κα[ὶ]

14 Ἀμμία Ἑρμογένους τοῦ Ἀ-

15πολλωνίου τοῦ Δημητρί-

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1ΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΟΔΗΜΟΣΚΑΙ

2[·ΓΕΡΟΥΣΙΑΚΑΙΟΙΝΕΟΙ

3[·ΤΕΙΜΗΣΑΝΚΑΙΜΕΤΗΛ

4 ΛΑΚΧΟΤΑ

5[·]ΥΚΙΔΑΝΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣΤΟΥ

6ΛΥΚΙΔΟΥΖΗΝΩΝΑΤΑΙΣ

7[··ΛΛΙΣΤΑΙΣΤΕΙΜΑΙΣΖΗ

8[·ΑΝΤΑΕΝΠΑΙΔΕΙΑΚΟΣ

9[··ΩΣΚΑΙΕΝΑΡΕΤΩΣ

10[··ΝΔΕΑΝΑΘΕΣΙΝΤΟΥΑΝ

11[·ΡΙΑΝΤΟΣΕΠΟΙΗΣΑΝΤΟ

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13[·]ΕΝΟΥΣΝΕΟΠΟΙΟΣΚΑ[·]

14[··]ΜΙΑΕΡΜΟΓΕΝΟΥΣΤΟΥΑ

15ΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥΤΟΥΔΗΜΗΤΡΙ

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Apparatus

Letters seen only by Wood, and not subsequently recorded are highlighted.

Translation:

The Council and the People and the Gerousia and the Young Men honoured, also after his death, with the finest honours, Lykidas Zenon son of Diogenes son of Lykidas who lived in education, with elegance and virtue. Diogenes son of Lykidas son of Diogenes, neopoios, and Ammia daughter of Hermogenes son of Apollonios son of Demetrios, his parents, undertook the erection of the statue.

Commentary:

Lykidas Zenon clearly died young, while he was still living 'in education'; he was probably a neos - that is, in the post-ephebic age group - which would explain why the neoi participated in his honours.