Description of Monument

White marble statue base with heavy moulding above and below on three sides (0.81 at moulding, 0.69 at face x 0.47 × 0.77); the moulding and part of the left side are chipped away.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.018-0.02

Date

A.D. 41/54 (reign)

Edition Τιβέριον Κλαύδιον Καίσαρα Σεβαστὸν Γερμανικὸν αὐτοκράτορα ὁ δῆμος καὶ Μένανδρος Διογένουςτοῦ Ζήνωνος ἀρχιερεὺς αὐτοῦ καὶ Διονύσου

Apparatus

Letters recorded by Deering but not read subsequently are highlighted.

Translation

(Statue of) Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Imperator: the People (put up his statue, acting) with Menandros son of Diogenes the son of Zenon, his high priest, and (?priest) of Dionysos.

Commentary

The wording would seem to imply that Menandros was high -priest of Dionysos; but such a position would be very unusual, and it seems likely that in this text, which is unconventionally phrased, we should understand 'priest'.

For Menandros son of Diogenes, a combination of names which occurs several times, see Name index.

Locations

Walls, South-east: reused and fallen, south of the East gate, near 12.514 (MAMA 434), 12.510 (430), 12.516 (599).Findspot (1983) Unknown

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Sherard papers; Wood; Deering; Gaudin squeeze (checked); publications.

History of Recording

Copied in 1705 by Picenini (10102, 28), whence Sherard (10101,39); by Wood (14, f.45); by Deering (2v, no.12); by Loew; by Waddington; by Gaudin (78); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition in 1977.

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh from Sherard, CIG 2739; corrected by Franz from Loew, a.10 ; published by Waddington, LBW 1621; mentioned by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, 26; published by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 447, whence 1980.1244, McCabe 203.

Photographs

Face (1973)

Face (1983)

Face (1983)

Representations

Wood notebook 14, page 45

Deering page 2v