12.304. Building dedication to Zeus

Description:
Fragment of white marble architrave from a Doric entablature (W. 0.42 × H. 0.375 × D. 0.245). The left side, although damaged, is probably an original edge.
Text:
Inscribed on the exposed face; the text must have begun on preceding blocks.
Letters:
Heights uneven, l.1 0.044-0.05, l.2 0.04-0.06; drawn freehand, and cut with trenches of uneven depth.
Date:
First century B.C., probably triumviral, but possibly earlier (lettering)
Findspot:
Walls, East (south part): recorded by K&R near 11.104 (=P&H 10); on a pile of loose stones on top of the wall, eastern stretch, a little south of the current entrance to the site
Original Location:
?Temple of Zeus Nineudios
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Copied by Kubitschek (K.III.36, Abklatsch 96); recorded by the NYU expedition in 1992 (92.3)
Bibliography:
published from Kubitschek's notes by Cormack, ABSA 59 (1964), 22 no. 19, whence L. Robert, AntClass (1966), 394 , BE 1967.548, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 135; mentioned by M-H Gates, AJA 98 (1994), 267-68, whence BullEp 1995.78, and published by R.R.R. Smith, Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantasi 15,2 (1993), 355 and 368, whence BullEp 1996.385, SEG 1994.864.
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 [·· ? ·· ?name] τὸ ἐπιστ̣[ύλιον ·· ? ··]
2 [·· ? ·· ?Διὶ] Νινευδίῳ [·· ? ··]
1[ - - - ····]ΤΟΕΠΙΣ·[····· - - - ]
2[ - - - ···]ΝΙΝΕΥΔΙΩ[ - - - ]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
<note>
name
</note>
</supplied>
τὸ
ἐπισ
<unclear reason="damage" >
τ
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
ύλιον
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
Διὶ
</supplied>
Νινευδίῳ
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>

Apparatus

l.1, perhaps τὸ ἐπιστ̣[?ύλιον καὶ τὸν ἐπ' αὐτοῦ κόσμον]; cf. e.g. 12.505 (=MAMA 439), but the parallel is not exact.

Translation:

. . . ?built/dedicated] the epistyle [ and the decoration on it? . .? . . dedicated to Zeus] Nineudios [ . . .

Commentary:

The inscription which was seen with this (now largely lost: see under 11.104 =P&H 10) recorded three dedications, perhaps of Julio-Claudian date, made by Dionysios son of Papylos and grandson of Papylos, priest of Zeus Nineudios, almost certainly dedicated to that god; and the two stones together are obviously spoil from the dismantlement of his presumed temple.

For the cult title see Robert, who suggests it is to be connected with the legends of Ninos and Ninoe.

Photographs:

Face (1992)
 Face (1992)
Face (1992)
 Face (1992)
Face (1992)
 Face (1992)

Representations:

Kubitschek notebook III, 36
 Kubitschek notebook III, 36

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