<rs type="textType">Dedication</rs> (post mortem) by Flavius Zenon

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (2004).

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Description of Monument

A white marble masonry 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

c. A.D. 324-350 (lettering, content).

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

Transcription (Roueché);Boulanger notebook.

Translation Flavius Zenon, 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 Zenon see also 5.301, and discussion at II.25.

Locations

Hadrianic Baths, East Court: 'Au centre de la cour de l'Est devant la face Est du pilastre Nord'. Unknown. 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 McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 168; by Erim and Reynolds (1991), no. 15b, whence SEG 1990.938

Photographs

Face (1972)
Top of block (1994)
Side of block (1994)

Transcriptions

Boulanger, Notebook A, page 55