Description of Monument
Upper part of an inscribed colonnette of blue marble, recomposed from three fragments (across cord 0.28 × 0.53).
Description of Text
Inscribed on the face.
Description of 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).
Edition
τῷ Ὓπνῳ
Σεπτίμιος
Αὐρήλιος Φλάουιος
Οὐενίδιος
Ὑψικλῆς
Εὔφρων
ἀρχιερεὺς
ὁ ἱερεὺς τοῦ
Ἀσκληπίου
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.
Locations
Walls, South (east part): excavations, trench 4UnknownMuseum (1975).
Text Constituted From
Transcription (Reynolds).
History of Recording
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.286).