<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> inscription for Zenon

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble block: fragment 0.31 x 0.78 x 0.30

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

According to Fellows, the missing letters were at the left side. 0.07-0.075 (Kubitschek). Ligatures: l. 5, ΗΝ; l. 6, ΗΡ; l.11 ; second ΤΗ

Date

First to fourth centuries A.D. (terminology)

Edition τὸ μνημεῖον καὶ τὴν ἐπ' αὐτῷ σορὸν καὶ τὰς εἰσώστας κατεσκεύασεν Ζήνων Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ Γάμου κεκήδευται Ζήνων ὁ προγεγραμμένος ἀνατεθεικὼς εἰς αἰωνίους κλήρους ἀργυρίου δηνάρια ε κηδευ ΟΥ τοῦ Γάμου ὁ τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ αὐτοῦ υἱὸς τοῖς χρυσοφόροις νεοπυοῖς εἰς αἰωνίους κλήρους δηλοῦται ἔτι κηδευθήσεται ἐν τῇ σορῷ ΟΥ ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἐξουσίαν ἕξει τῇ σορ' οὔτε ἀνῦξαι αὐτὴν ἐπεὶ ἀποτείσει εἰς τὸφίσκον ἀργυρίου δηνάρια γ ὧν τὸν τρίτον ἔστω τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντοςΡ κηδευθήσονται οὓς ἂν Χρήσιμος ἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου
Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

No commentary yet (2007)

Locations

Unknown City, South-west: seen by Bailie high in the wall of a building near the SW walls; inside the West Gate (Kubitschek) Findspot

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Recorded by Fellows. Bailie gives a location not in Fellows, which suggests that he did see this stone; K&R saw a fragment of lines 1-4 ( K V.8, Abklatsch ; see Cormack, Notes, fig. 10) ; not reported subsequently.

Bibliography

Published by Fellows, no. 53, whence CIG 2836b; by Bailie, Fasc. ii 56-58 and 324-325, no. 80, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 538 ; by Laum, 109; referred to, Arch. Delt. 1921/22, 294.

Representations

Lines 1-4: Kubitschek, Notebook V, 8