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Joyce M. Reynolds1982

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Originally published in Reynolds (1982).

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Description of Monument

White marble relief panels from a monumental public tomb, with sculpted figures ; 1.85; width of panels 0.75-1.30. The maximum depth of the panels is 0.40-0.50.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face next to the figures. Numbers for fitting the blocks survive (0.02-0.03) normally on the upper face of the blocks, but in some cases on the face.

Description of Letters

0.04-0.05

Date

Late first century A.D. (career, sculpture, lettering)

Edition
Numbers (Blocks 1-5)ζ ε ε δ δ γ γ β β α
Ἀνδρήα Ζώιλος sculpture Τιμῆι sculpture Δῆμος Ζώιλος heads Πόλις
Αἰών
Μνήμη
Μείνως
Ζώιλος
Ἀρ̣ετή
Πίστις
Translation

A: Courage, Zoilos, Honour, The People, Zoilos, The City

B-D: 7: Eternity. 8. Memory. 9. Minos 10. Zoilos. 13. Virtue. 14. Faith

Commentary

For commentary see R. R. R. Smith, op.cit.

Locations

City, Water Channel Area. Unknown Museum, reassembled (1989).

History of Recording

2, 3 5 and 7 recorded by A. Guiliano in 1956: other fragments recorded by the NYU expedition over several years: 1: 61.61; 4, 61.62; 8, 77.147; 9 found 1984; 12 66.234. 13 64.242

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds, A&R 34 whence BE 1983.391, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 895 .

Republished, with the whole monument, by R. R. R. Smith, Aphrodisias I. The monument of C. Julius Zoilos (Mainz, 1993)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

Photographs

9, Face (1980)
8, Face (1980)
14, Face (1989)