<rs type="textType">Building dedication</rs> to Zeus

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Fragment of white marble architrave from a Doric entablature (0.42 × 0.375 × 0.245). The left side, although damaged, is probably an original edge.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the exposed face; the text must have begun on preceding blocks.

Letters

Heights uneven, l.1 0.044-0.05, l.2 0.04-0.06; drawn freehand, and cut with trenches of uneven depth.

Date

First century B.C., probably triumviral, but possibly earlier (lettering)

Edition name τὸ ἐπιστύλιον Διὶ Νινευδίῳ
Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications.

Apparatus

l.1, perhaps τὸ ἐπιστύλιον καὶ τὸν ἐπ' αὐτοῦ κόσμον; cf. e.g. 12.505 (=MAMA 439), but the parallel is not exact.

Translation

. . . ?built/dedicated] the epistyle [ and the decoration on it? . .? . . dedicated to Zeus] Nineudios [ . . .

Commentary

The inscription which was seen with this (now largely lost: see under 11.104 =P&H 10) recorded three dedications, perhaps of Julio-Claudian date, made by Dionysios son of Papylos and grandson of Papylos, priest of Zeus Nineudios, almost certainly dedicated to that god; and the two stones together are obviously spoil from the dismantlement of his presumed temple.

For the cult title see Robert, who suggests it is to be connected with the legends of Ninos and Ninoe.

Locations

Walls, East (south part): recorded by K&R near 11.104 (=P&H 10); on a pile of loose stones on top of the wall, eastern stretch, a little south of the current entrance to the site. Temple of Zeus Nineudios Museum

History of Recording

Copied by Kubitschek (K.III.36, Abklatsch 96); recorded by the NYU expedition in 1992 (92.3)

Bibliography

published from Kubitschek's notes by Cormack, ABSA 59 (1964), 22 no. 19, whence L. Robert, AntClass (1966), 394 , BE 1967.548, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 135; mentioned by M-H Gates, AJA 98 (1994), 267-68, whence BullEp 1995.78, and published by R.R.R. Smith, Kazi Sonuçlari Toplantasi 15,2 (1993), 355 and 368, whence BullEp 1996.385, SEG 1994.864.

Photographs

Face (1992)
Face (1992)
Face (1992)

Representations

Kubitschek notebook III, 36