Description of Monument

Right side of a white marble statue base (0.32 × 0.37 × 0.50) with moulding above and below at the front and on the right face, and ahole for attachment on top.

Description of Text

Inscribed on fasciae of upper and lower mouldings (ll.1, 2, 9), and on face, which is lightly drafted.

Letters

Lightly cut; second century A.D.; ave. 0.02; Ligatures: ΗΜll.1, 5 ; ΗΝ ll.5, 8.

Date

Second century A.D. (lettering)

Edition ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτεί μησαν Ζήνωνα Ἀττάλουτοῦ τοῦ Δημέου ἁνδρα γενόμενον γένους ἐνδόξου τὴν δὲ τειμὴν ατο γένεσθαι Ι ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ οκα ἐκ μέρους τὴν ν κρήνην

Apparatus

l.2, Ζήνων is a name of the right length and common at Aphrodisias.

l. 4, ΜΕΝΟΙΙ: the Ν has no diagonal stroke.

l.6 perhaps ἐπεμελήσατο.

Translation

[The council and the] People honoured [?Zenon] the son of Attalos [the son of ? . . .]the son of Demeas [a man who came] of a distinguished family. His son [name ?saw to it] that the monument was erected [who had also] in part [paid for ] the fountain.

Commentary

The family of the honorand is not at present otherwise known. Presumably his son took responsibility for erecting the statue, which was to be placed near a fountain, which the honorand had established with some financial contribution from the son. Which of the several known fountains is nmmeant is not clear.

Locations

Stray find from 'fortification area'. Unknown Museum (1980)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1977 (77.138)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1978)

Face (1980)