<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for Marcus Aurelius Zenas

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Lower part of a ectangular white marble statue base with moulded panels on three sides, reconstructed from seven fragments and incomplete in the upper part (0.51 × 1.135 × 0.51).

Description of Text

Inscribed within the front panel, which is complete above (die 0.375 × 0.995). The text must have begun on a crowning feature, now lost.

Description of Letters

0.02. Ligatures: l.3, ΕΙ; l.4, ΜΝ; ll. 9, 19, 20, 24,TH; l.17, ΗΝ; l.25, ΝΗ. Omicron in l. 20 cut small.

Date

Third centuries A.D. (lettering, nomenclature).

Edition παῖδα τῶν εὐ γεγονότων ἄνδρα εὐγενείᾳ καὶ ἤθει σεμνῷ διενένκοντα ζήσαντα κοσμίως καὶ αἰδημόνως πρὸς ὑπόδειγμα ἀρετῆς καὶ ἐπαινεθέντα ἐφ' αἷςμεγαλοψύχως ἐξετέλεσε ἀρχαῖς καὶ λιτουργίαις ἀναθέν τα δὲ Μᾶρκον Αυρήλιον ΖηνᾶνΖηνᾶ τοῦ Διονυσίου τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ τῇ ίερωτάτῃ βουλῇ εἰς αἰωνίους κλήρους ἀργυρίου ἀρχαῖα δηνάρια βφ καθῶς διὰ τῆς γε νομένης αὐτοῦ ἀναθέσεως δη λοῦται
Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze.

Translation

descendant of well-born men, a man outstanding for good birth and reverend character; he lived with due order and with moderation to the point of being a demonstration of excellence; he was praised for the offices and liturgies in performance of which he acted magnanimously; and his father Marcus Aurelius Zenas son of Zenas the son of Dionysios, who dedicated to the worshipful Council with a view to money distributions to lot-selected councillors in perpetuity, the sum of 2500 old denarii as is made clear in the dedication.

Commentary

The language of lines 2-14 is identical with that of 12.537 (=CIG 2794), where the subject's personal name is also lost; but the father's name is different from the one here, and it was he who set up the statue of his son. Complete identity of the honorary descriptions in two texts is unusual, although substantial similarity of thought and language is common. For the establishment of funds to finance lotteries available to memebers of the city council see word index, s.v. κλήρος

Locations

Temple/Church, east end: probably re-used in the Byzantine bema. Unknown. Findspot (1977).

History of Recording

Three fragments recorded by Gaudin (34a, 29f, g); these fragments, further damaged, recorded by the NYU expedition with four additional fragments (Temple 16; SBI 89).

Bibliography

Three fragments published from Gaudin's squeeze by Reinach, 109, 116, 117, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 581, 372.

Photographs

Lines 1-end (1968)
Lines 1-end (1968)
ll. 1-2, middle (1977)
ll. 3-6, right (1977)
ll. 11-17, left (1978)
ll. 6-end (1977)
ll. 6-end (1977)