<rs type="textType">Gladiator memorial</rs> for familia of Zenon Hypsikles

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

A white marble block with a decoration of three simple acroteria above a recessed panel within a simple moulding.

Description of Text

Inscribed on panel, and on lower moulding (l.8). It is not clear where the last line would have been inscribed.

Letters

standard first/second-century forms, c. 0.02; ligature, HN l.1

Date

?Late first/ early second century (lettering, prosopography)

Edition Φαμιλία Ζήνωνος τοῦ Ὑψικλέους τοῦ Ὑψικλέους τοῦ φύσει Ζήνω νος Ὑψικλέους ἀρχιερέως μονο μάχων καὶ κατα δίκων καὶ ταυροκαθαπτῶν
Translation

Of Zenon Hypsikles, son of Hypsikles, son of Hypsikles the natural son of Zenon, high-priest, the familia of single combatants and convicts and bull-catchers [...]

Commentary

The owner of this troupe is perhaps mentioned in one other text, 11.22 (=MAMA VIII.500 ); his sister, Ammia Hypsiklis, occurs in another, put up by her grandson, 12.712 (=Reinach 29). He was identified by Liermann with a Zenon son of Hypsikles active in the mid first century: 12.803 (=LBW 1611), but both names are very common at Aphrodisias; the text put up by his sister's grandson should perhaps be dated to the late second century, since the next generation of his family was apparently active after 212: 12.523 (=MAMA VIII.559) with a similar, unpublished, text). This therefore suggests a date for this inscription in the late first or early second century.

The familia includes the same elements as that in 4.104, together with 'bull-catchers', whose special skill was to pursue the bulls, initially on horseback, and then to mount the bulls themselves (Robert, Gladiateurs, 318-9).

For further discussion see Roueché, PPA, loc. cit.

Locations

City, North-west: 'on the north side of the city' (Fellows); Stray find in 1976. Unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

Publications; transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

Copied by Fellows; recorded by the NYU expedition (excavation inventory no. 76.192)

Bibliography

Published by Fellows, no. 20, whence CIG 2759b, Liermann, Analecta 5, Robert, Gladiateurs no. 157; discussed by Baunack, RM 38 (1883), 299, Robert, 'Πυκτεύειν', RA 30 (1929), 24-41, 28 (= OMS I, 691-708, 695). Published by Roueché, PPA 14.

Photographs

Face (1977)