<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for <gap reason="lost"/> Zenas descendent of Apollonios

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble statue base without moulding; surviving fragment only (0.38 × 0.36 × 0.22).

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face.

Description of Letters

0.03; ligatues: HN ll.2, 6, 7; HNE l.6

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering); perhaps third century in view of the wife's nomen.

Edition τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου Ζηνᾶν γενάμενον νεοποιὸν δὶς τῆς θεοῦ Ἀφροδείτης ἄρξαντα καὶ τὴν πρώτην ἀρχὴν ἐνδόξως καὶ εἰρηναρχήσαντα καὶ τὰς λοιπὰς λιτουργίας φιλοτείμως ἐκτελέσαντα καὶ παρασχόντα ἑαυτὸν χρήσιμον τῇ πατρίδι καὶ εἰς συνδικίας δημοσίων πραγμά των τὴν δὲ ἀνάστασιν τοῦ ἀνδριάντος ἐποιήσατο Αὐρηλία Ἀμαζονὶς ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ παρ' ἑαυτῆς
Apparatus

l. 4, ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΣ Wood

l. 14, ΔΗΜΟ Wood, who also omits line 15

l. 18, At the beginning of the line Cormack assumed ΕΠΟΙ, but Sherard Wood and Fellows all give ΠΟI

ll. 18ff, Wood discerned these lines, but could read no letters after ΠΟΙΗΣ , and writes 'defaced'

Translation

Zenas son of Apollonios, who had been twice temple-builder of the goddess Aphrodite, had held the senior archonship with distinction, and the office of irenarch and the remaining liturgies generously and shown himself useful to his city also in the smaller public business at law. Aurelia Amazonis, his wife, carried out the erection of the statue from her own means.

Commentary

The honorand may have been the son of the Apollonios of l. 1, but we do not know how much of the text is lost and several of his ancestors may have been named. He is not at present identifiable. The list of public services for which he is praised is more specific than is always the case at Aphrodisias, presumably because his wife was willing to spend the money necessary both for a base of the necessary size and the cutter's skill.

The activity of the wife and her ownership of funds are to be noted.

No further commentary yet (2007)

Locations

Walls, South-east: seen complete re-used in the south-east stretch in 1705, but a fragment was found in Karaçasu in 1840. Unknown Walls (1934) and Karaçasu (1840).

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); publications.

History of Recording

The complete text was copied by Sherard in 1705 (10101, 42) and by Wood (14, f47); fragment b (opening letters of lines 11-20) was copied in Karaçasu by Fellows in 1840; in 1934 only one fragment (left side of lines 1-8) was recorded by the MAMA expedition. No fragments found subsequently. It is probable that the text copied by Sherard and Wood was on a complete block; Wood comments 'beginning lost', but this is likely to refer to the text which, as in many other instances, may well have begun on a crowning feature.

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh from Sherard, CIG 2768; the Karaçasu fragment published by Fellows, Acct. 300, no. 12, whence CIG p. 1119; the fragments discussed by Cormack, Notes 4, 9-10, and 55 fig. 1; the whole text published from the CIG and MAMA records, by Cormack, MAMA 8, no. 520, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 332.

Photographs

No photographs

Representations

i: Wood notebook 14, page 47