Description of Monument

A white marble rectangular statue base, chipped along the edges (0.60 × 1.68 × 0.52). A thick upper moulding has been chipped away for the re-use of the stone.

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face.

Letters

0.025

Date

First to second centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος καὶ ἡ γερουσία καὶ οἱ νέοι ἐτείμησαν καὶ μετηλλακχότα Λυκίδαν Διογένους τοῦ Λυκίδου Ζήνωνα ταῖς καλλίσταις τειμαῖς ζήσαντα ἐν παιδείᾳ κοσμίως καὶ ἐναρέτως τὴν δὲ ἀνάθεσιν τοῦ ἀνδριάντος ἐποίησαντο Διογένης Λυκίδου τοῦ Διογένους νεοποιὸς καὶἈμμία Ἑρμογένους τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ Δημητρίου οἱ γονεῖς αὐτοῦ

Apparatus

Letters seen only by Wood, and not subsequently recorded are highlighted.

Translation

The Council and the People and the Gerousia and the Young Men honoured, also after his death, with the finest honours, Lykidas Zenon son of Diogenes son of Lykidas who lived in education, with elegance and virtue. Diogenes son of Lykidas son of Diogenes, neopoios, and Ammia daughter of Hermogenes son of Apollonios son of Demetrios, his parents, undertook the erection of the statue.

Commentary

Lykidas Zenon clearly died young, while he was still living 'in education'; he was probably a neos - that is, in the post-ephebic age group - which would explain why the neoi participated in his honours.

Locations

Unknown Martyrion: re-used on its side in the wall between the narthex and the main building. ('Dégagement de la principale basilique', Gaudin) Findspot (1973)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); publications; Wood; Gaudin's squeeze.

History of Recording

Copied by Wood (14, 45v), before the left side had been severely chipped; by Reichel (R I.24v, I, 35); recorded by Gaudin (5); by the NYU expedition (SBI 167).

Bibliography

Published by Kubitschek & Reichel, 1893, 103, no. 14; by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, 62, whence McCabe 503 .

Photographs

Face (1973)

Representations

Wood notebook 14, page 45v

Reichel notebook, I, 35

Reichel notebook, I.24v (noted)