<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for Zenon son of Zenon, wrestler

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

A statue base shaft (h. not measured, 0.45 x 0.45) with moulded panels,

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

Standard second-/third-century forms, av. 0.02. Ligatures: ΗΝ, l.3; ΗΝ, l.8; ΗΝ, l.9; ΗΝ, l.10; ΝΗ, l.19.

Date

Early third century (contests)

Edition Ζήνωνα Ζήνωνος τοῦ Χάρητος το ῦ Ζ ή νωνος Αἰνείαν γέ νους καὶ ἀξιώ μ ατος τοῦ πρώ τε ύοντ ος ἐν τῇ πατρίδι ἱερο νείκην πλ ειστο νείκην παράδο ξον παλαιστὴν πα ῖ δα Μεν εσθεὺς Ἀ πολ λωνίου τοῦ Με νεσθέως Πα π ίου Ἰσόβουνος ἀρχινεοποιὸ ς θεᾶς Ἀφροδείτης τὸν συνγενῆ ἐκ τῶν ἰδ ί ων καθὼς ἀγωνοθετῶν ὑπέ σχετο
Apparatus

The letters read by Deering, but not by us, have been highlighted

l. 2, At the beginning of the line Deering read ΕΥ.

l. 16, ἀρχινεωποιὸς, in MAMA, is a printing error, since the MAMA expedition did not transcribe this part of the stone.

Translation

Zenon Aeneas son of Zenon son of Chares son of Zenon, of leading family and rank in the city, sacred victor, frequent victor, extraordinary, boy wrestler. Menestheus Isobounos, son of Apollonios son of Menestheus Papias, chief neopoios of the goddess Aphrodite (put up the statue of) his kinsman, out of his own resources, as he promised while he was agonothete.

Commentary

For discussion see Roueché, Performers and Partisans, ad loc.

Locations

Temple/Church: re-used, with other inscribed bases, as vertical elements to support the sanctuary screen of the Temple-church; that screen, which reused elements of an early Byzantine balustrade, was probably constructed in the ninth or tenth century. Unknown Findspot

Text Constituted From

Publications; notebooks; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

The complete stone was copied by Deering (f. 6 no. 26). Seven fragments were recorded by Gaudin (29b, 29e, 32, 34b, 45 [twice]). One of these (part of Reinach 143) recorded by the MAMA expedition. That fragment, and three others recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published from Deering by Leake, no. 11, whence LBW 1616a, Liermann, Analecta. 27; by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, nos 91, 92, 112, 115, 118, 143: see the reconstruction by J. M. R. Cormack, Inscribed Monuments of Aphrodisias (Reading, 1955), 63, fig.12. Published by Cormack, from the MAMA records and previous publications, MAMA VIII.513; by Roueché, PPA 78.

Photographs

Lines 1-6 (1977)
Lines 11-22 (1976)
Lines 6-8 (1977)

Representations

Deering notebook, page 6