12.515. Statue dedication for emperor Claudius

Description:
White marble statue base with heavy moulding above and below on three sides (W. 0.81 at moulding, W. 0.69 at face x H. 0.47 × D. 0.77); the moulding and part of the left side are chipped away.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.018-0.02
Date:
A.D. 41/54 (reign)
Findspot:
Walls, South-east: reused and fallen, south of the East gate, near 12.514 (MAMA 434), 12.510 (430), 12.516 (599).
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1983)
History of discovery:
Copied in 1705 by Picenini (10102, 28), whence Sherard (10101,39); by Wood (14, f.45); by Deering (2v, no.12); by Loew; by Waddington; by Gaudin (78); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition in 1977.
Bibliography:
Published by Boeckh from Sherard, CIG 2739; corrected by Franz from Loew, a.10 ; published by Waddington, LBW 1621; mentioned by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, 26; published by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 447, whence SEG 1980.1244, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 203.
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Sherard papers; Wood; Deering; Gaudin squeeze (checked); publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 Τιβέριον Κλαύδιον Καίσαρα
2 Σεβαστὸν Γερμανικὸν αὐτοκράτορα
3[ὁ δ]ῆμος καὶ Μένανδρος Διογένους
4 τοῦ Ζήνωνος ἀρχιερεὺς αὐτοῦ καὶ v.
5 vacat Διονύσου vacat
1ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΝΚΑΙΣΑΡΑ
2[··]ΒΑΣΤΟΝΓΕΡΜΑΝΙΚΟΝΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΑ
3[··]ΗΜΟΣΚΑΙΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΣΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣ
4[·]ΟΥΖΗΝΩΝΟΣΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΥΣΑΥΤΟΥΚΑΙ 
5        ΔΙΟΝΥΣΟΥ        
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Τιβέριον
Κλαύδιον
Καίσαρα
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<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="previous" >
Σε
</rdg>
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="2" unit="character" />
</rdg>
</app>
βαστὸν
Γερμανικὸν
αὐτοκράτορα
<lb n="3" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ὁ
</supplied>
<supplied reason="lost" >
δ
</supplied>
ῆμος
καὶ
Μένανδρος
Διογένους
<lb n="4" />
<app type="previouslyread" >
<rdg resp="previous" >
τ
</rdg>
<rdg resp="autopsy" >
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
</rdg>
</app>
οῦ
Ζήνωνος
ἀρχιερεὺς
αὐτοῦ
καὶ
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="5" />
<space extent="8" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
Διονύσου
<space extent="8" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>

Apparatus

Letters recorded by Deering but not read subsequently are highlighted.

Translation:

(Statue of) Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator: the People (put up his statue, acting) with Menandros son of Diogenes the son of Zenon, his high priest, and (?priest) of Dionysos.

Commentary:

The wording would seem to imply that Menandros was high -priest of Dionysos; but such a position would be very unusual, and it seems likely that in this text, which is unconventionally phrased, we should understand 'priest'.

For Menandros son of Diogenes, a combination of names which occurs several times, see Name index.

Photographs:

Face (1973)
 Face (1973)
Face (1983)
 Face (1983)
Face (1983)
 Face (1983)

Representations:

Wood notebook 14, page 45
 Wood notebook 14, page 45
Deering page 2v
 Deering page 2v

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