12.521. Honours for [·· ? ··] Zenas descendent of Apollonios
- Description:
- White marble statue base without moulding; surviving fragment only (W. 0.38 × H. 0.36 × D. 0.22).
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face.
- Letters:
- 0.03; ligatues: HN ll.2, 6, 7; HNE l.6
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering); perhaps third century in view of the wife's nomen.
- Findspot:
- Walls, South-east: seen complete re-used in the south-east stretch in 1705, but a fragment was found in Karaçasu in 1840.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Walls (1934) and Karaçasu (1840).
- History of discovery:
- The complete text was copied by Sherard in 1705 (10101, 42) and by Wood (14, f47); fragment b (opening letters of lines 11-20) was copied in Karaçasu by Fellows in 1840; in 1934 only one fragment (left side of lines 1-8) was recorded by the MAMA expedition. No fragments found subsequently. It is probable that the text copied by Sherard and Wood was on a complete block; Wood comments 'beginning lost', but this is likely to refer to the text which, as in many other instances, may well have begun on a crowning feature.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Boeckh from Sherard, CIG 2768; the Karaçasu fragment published by Fellows, Acct. 300, no. 12, whence CIG p. 1119; the fragments discussed by Cormack, Notes 4, 9-10, and 55 fig. 1; the whole text published from the CIG and MAMA records, by Cormack, MAMA 8, no. 520, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 332.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds); publications. This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου
- 2Ζηνᾶν γενάμενον
- 3νεοποιὸν δὶς τῆς
- 4θεοῦ Ἀφροδείτης ἄ[ρ]-
- 5ξαντα κα̣ὶ τὴν πρώ-
- 6την̣ ἀρχὴν ἐνδόξως
- 7καὶ εἰρηναρχήσαντα
- 8κα̣ὶ τὰς λοιπὰς λιτουρ-
- 9γίας φιλοτείμως ἐκ-
- 10τελέσαντα καὶ πα-
- 11ρασχόντα ἑαυτὸν
- 12χρήσιμον τῇ πατρί-
- 13δι καὶ εἰ[ς σ]υνδικίας
- 14δημοσίων πραγμά-
- 15 vac. των vac.
- 16τὴν δὲ ἀνάστασιν
- 17τοῦ ἀνδριάντος [ἐ]-
- 18ποιήσατο Αὐρηλία
- 19Ἀμαζονὶς ἡ γυνὴ
- 20αὐτοῦ παρ' ἑαυτῆς stop v. leaf
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1ΤΟΥΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ
- 2ΖΗΝΑΝΓΕΝΑΜΕΝΟΝ
- 3ΝΕΟΠΟΙΟΝΔΙΣΤΗΣ
- 4ΘΕΟΥΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΣΑ[·]
- 5ΞΑΝΤΑΚ·ΙΤΗΝΠΡΩ
- 6ΤΗ·ΑΡΧΗΝΕΝΔΟΞΩΣ
- 7ΚΑΙΕΙΡΗΝΑΡΧΗΣΑΝΤΑ
- 8Κ·ΙΤΑΣΛΟΙΠΑΣΛΙΤΟΥΡ
- 9ΓΙΑΣΦΙΛΟΤΕΙΜΩΣΕΚ
- 10ΤΕΛΕΣΑΝΤΑΚΑΙΠΑ
- 11ΡΑΣΧΟΝΤΑΕΑΥΤΟΝ
- 12ΧΡΗΣΙΜΟΝΤΗΠΑΤΡΙ
- 13ΔΙΚΑΙΕΙ[··]ΥΝΔΙΚΙΑΣ
- 14ΔΗΜΟΣΙΩΝΠΡΑΓΜΑ
- 15 ΤΩΝ
- 16ΤΗΝΔΕΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΝ
- 17ΤΟΥΑΝΔΡΙΑΝΤΟΣ[·]
- 18ΠΟΙΗΣΑΤΟΑΥΡΗΛΙΑ
- 19ΑΜΑΖΟΝΙΣΗΓΥΝΗ
- 20ΑΥΤΟΥΠΑΡ'ΕΑΥΤΗΣ stop leaf
Apparatus
l. 4, ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΣ Wood
l. 14, ΔΗΜΟ [·· ? ··] Wood, who also omits line 15
l. 18, At the beginning of the line Cormack assumed ΕΠΟΙ, but Sherard Wood and Fellows all give ΠΟI
ll. 18ff, Wood discerned these lines, but could read no letters after ΠΟΙΗΣ [·· ? ··], and writes 'defaced'
Translation:
·· ? ··] Zenas [·· ? ··] son of Apollonios, who had been twice temple-builder of the goddess Aphrodite, had held the senior archonship with distinction, and the office of irenarch and the remaining liturgies generously and shown himself useful to his city also in the smaller public business at law. Aurelia Amazonis, his wife, carried out the erection of the statue from her own means.
Commentary:
The honorand may have been the son of the Apollonios of l. 1, but we do not know how much of the text is lost and several of his ancestors may have been named. He is not at present identifiable. The list of public services for which he is praised is more specific than is always the case at Aphrodisias, presumably because his wife was willing to spend the money necessary both for a base of the necessary size and the cutter's skill.
The activity of the wife and her ownership of funds are to be noted.
No further commentary yet (2007)
- Photographs:
- none.
Representations:
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