12.638. Dedication to Hypnos by high-priest and priest of Asklepios

Description:
Upper part of an inscribed colonnette of blue marble, recomposed from three fragments (across cord W. 0.28 × H. 0.53).
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters:
0.025; Τ over Π in l. 2; tilde after the abbreviations in l. 3; apices—perhaps for rough breathing—above first letter in l. 1, and first two letters in l. 8.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, nomenclature).
Findspot:
Walls, South (east part): excavations, trench 4
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum (1975)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.286).
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
1[τῷ] Ὓπνῳ
2Σ̣ε̣πτίμιος
3 v. Αὐ(ρήλιος) Φλ(άουιος) v.
4Οὐενίδιος
5Ὑψικλῆς v.
6Εὔφρων v.
7ἀρχ[ι]ε̣ρεὺς
8 ὁ ἱε[ρεὺ]ς τοῦ
9Ἀσ[κληπ]ί̣ου
1[··]ΥΠΝΩ
2··ΠΤΙΜΙΟΣ
3 ΑΥ tilde ΦΛ tilde  
4ΟΥΕΝΙΔΙΟΣ
5ΥΨΙΚΛΗΣ 
6ΕΥΦΡΩΝ 
7ΑΡΧ[·]·ΡΕΥΣ
8ΟΙΕ[···]ΣΤΟΥ
9ΑΣ[····]·ΟΥ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
τῷ
</supplied>
Ὓπνῳ
<lb n="2" />
<unclear reason="damage" >
Σε
</unclear>
πτίμιος
<lb n="3" />
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Αὐ
<orig >
<g type="tilde" />
</orig>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ρήλιος
</supplied>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Φλ
<orig >
<g type="tilde" />
</orig>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
άουιος
</supplied>
</expan>
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="4" />
Οὐενίδιος
<lb n="5" />
Ὑψικλῆς
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="6" />
Εὔφρων
<space extent="1" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
<lb n="7" />
ἀρχ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ι
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ε
</unclear>
ρεὺς
<lb n="8" />
ὁ
ἱε
<supplied reason="lost" >
ρεὺ
</supplied>
ς
τοῦ
<lb n="9" />
Ἀσ
<supplied reason="lost" >
κληπ
</supplied>
<unclear reason="damage" >
ί
</unclear>
ου
</ab>

Translation:

Septimius Aurelius Flavius Venidius Hypskles Euphron, high-priest and priest of Asklepios (set this monument up) for Hypnos.

Commentary:

For ?the same man see 12.712 (=Reinach 29); cf. also M. Ant. Venidius Apellas, 12.645 (=75.327). This man has four nomina and two cognomina: the presence of Aurelius suggests that the text postdates the Edict of Caracalla on citizenship (212), but in any case not before the reign of Septimius (192).

A high priest of the imperial cult, also priest, apparently of Asklepios, to whom the dedication of a statuette of Sleep is especially relevant.

Photographs:
none.

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