<rs type="textType">Honours</rs> for Zenon son of Zenon, boy runner Victor at the ninth Philemoniea

Charlotte M. Roueché2007

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Originally published in Roueché (1993).

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Description of Monument

A plain statue base shaft (1.09 x 0.34 x 0.34)

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face; the dedicating authority may have been named on a crowning feature

Letters

standard second-/third-century forms, 0.025; ligatures: ΗΝ, l.1; ΗΜ, l.10; ΗΝ, l.18; second Σ cut over Ο in l.21.

Date

c. 208 (contests)

Edition Ζήνωνα Ζήνωνος τοῦ Ἑρμείου νεικήσαντα παίδων στάδιον τῷ ἐπιτελεσθέντι ἀγῶνι τῆς ἐνάτης τετραετηρίδος Ἀφροδεισιήων Φιλημονιήων ἀγωνοθετούντων τῶν περὶ Τιβέριον Κλαύδιον Ἀπολλώνιον Βερονεικιανὸν Ἀκασσῶνα νεοποιῶν τὴν δὲ ἀνάστασιν τοῦ ἀνδριάντος ἐποιήσατο Τυχικὸς Φιλήτου τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου ἐκ τοῦ θέματος
Translation

Zenon, son of Zenon son of Hermias, who won the boys' running-race in the contest celebrated for the ninth four-year occurrence of the Aphrodeisiea Philemoniea; the contest-presidents were the neopoioi led by Tiberius Claudius Apollonios Beroneikianos Akasson. Tychicos son of Philetos son of Apollonios undertook the erection of the statue, out of the prize-money.

Commentary

See bibliography.

Locations

Necropolis, North-east: in the old Turkish cemetery. Unknown Findspot

Text Constituted From

Transcriptions (Reynolds, Roueché)

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (58); by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, no. 146, whence cited by Oikonomos, Arch. Delt. (1921/2), 295. Published by Roueché, PPA 82

Photographs

Face (1973)
Face (1988)