<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for Zenon son of Menippos

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

A plain white marble statue base, with hole and pouring channel on top for the attachment of a crowning feature (0.545 × 1.27 × 0.54).

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face. The stone is complete; the text must have begun on a crowning feature.

Description of Letters

ll. 1-3, 0.03; ll. 5 ff, 0.025; ligatures: ΜΗ, l.1. ΝΜ in l.4, ΗΝ in ll. 2, 3, 4, 14, ΝΗ l.11. Diaeretic dots around Α in ll. 5, 12, possibly 13; around Ε in ll. 5, 9, 11 (twice), 12; the Βs in ll. 12, 14 are non-standard and slightly different from each other; line above the figure in l. 15.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering and prosopography).

Edition e.g.ἡ πόλις καλλίσταις καὶ πρεπούσαῖς τειμαῖς ἐτείμησενΖήνωνα Μενίππου τοῦΖήνωνος τοῦ Καλλίου τὸν Μενίππου καὶ Ζήνωνος πατέρα ἀρχιερέα ταμίαν νεοποιὸν καὶ τὰς ἀλλὰς ἅπασας ἀρχάς τε καὶ λειτουργίας φιλοτείμως ἐπιτελέσαντα τῇ πατρίδι θαυμασθέντα ἐπί τε σωφροσύνῃ καὶ ἐπιεικείᾳ βίου καὶ ἐπὶ εὐνοίᾳ τῇ πρὸς τὴν πατρίδα ἐπιμεληθέντος Ζηνοβίου δ Ἐπαφροδείτου
Translation

The city honoured with the finest and fitting honours Zenon son of Menippos the son of Zenon the son of Kallias, father of Menippos and Zenon; high priest of the Imperial cult, treasurer, temple-builder who had also filled all other offices and liturgies for his country zealously. He was admired for his self-restraint and proper behaviour and for his goodwill towards his country. Zenobios, fourth of the name from Epaphroditos oversaw provision of the monument.

Commentary

The sons of this man are honoured in very similar terms in two inscriptions (not yet published)

For the epimelete see 12.1020.

Locations

Found: Walls, West Gate: re-used. Original location: Unknown. Last recorded: Findspot (1990).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1990 (Walls 162).

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

Photographs

Face (1990)
Face (1990)