12. Dedication (post mortem) by Flavius Zeno Charlotte M. Roueché 2004

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Description of Monument

A white marble block, without features (0.56 × 0.30 × 0.56).

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face.

Description of Letters

Clearly cut in a fluid style; 0.03-0.04; lunate sigma and cursive omega.

Date

Fourth century (lettering, content).

Edition Φλάβιος Ζήνων ἀρχιερεὺς καὶκόμης ἐποίει καὶ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ πατρίδι προῖκα κατὰ διαθήκας διὰ τῶν ἑαυτοῦπαίδων ἀνέθηκεν
Text Constituted From

Boulanger notebook; copy (Roueché).

Translation Flavius Zeno, high priest and comes, made this and set it up for his own homeland at his own expense, according to the terms of his will carried out by his own children.
Commentary

For Flavius Zeno see 11, and discussion at II.25.

Found

Hadrianic Baths: 'Au centre de la cour de l'Est devant la face Est du pilastre Nord'.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Unknown.

History of Recording

Excavated by Mendel in 1905 (Boulanger notebook A, 55; whence B 3); recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Erim & Roueché, PBSR 50, 1982, 103-104, no. 2 whence SEG 1982.1106, BE 1984.405, SEG 1985.1082; published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 12, whence PHI 168; by Erim and Reynolds (1991), no. 15b, whence SEG 1990.938

Photographs

Face (1972)

Top of block (1994)

Side of block (1994)

Transcriptions

Transcription by Boulanger: Notebook A, page 55

Category of Text

statue dedication

Category of Monument

masonry block.