1.144. Dedication to Aphrodite, from Temple
- Description:
- Large blue marble laver partly reconstructed from fragments (c. 2.75 across cord) with central boss (c. 0.87 across cord).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the boss. There is a pair, broken, and too damaged to show whether it also was inscribed.
- Letters:
- Very worn; 0.095.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, especially four-bar Σ in ll. 3, 4).
- Findspot:
- Temple/Church: atrium
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1980)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition (Temple 7).
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 1[··]Λ̣Υ[·]Ε̣
- 2Τ̣Ι[·]Ω̣Ι̣[·· ? ··]
- 3τοὺς δύω̣
- 4λ̣ο̣υτῆρας
- 5ἀνέθηκε
- 1[··]·Υ[·]·
- 2·Ι[·]··[·· ? ··]
- 3ΤΟΥΣΔΥ·
- 4··ΥΤΗΡΑΣ
- 5ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="2"
unit="character"
dim="left"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
λ
</unclear>
υ
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="internal"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ε
</unclear>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
τ
</unclear>
ι
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="internal"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
ωι
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="line"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
τοὺς
δύ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ω
</unclear>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
λο
</unclear>
υτῆρας
<lb
n="5"
/>
ἀνέθηκε
</ab>
Apparatus
ll. 1, 2, the name and presumably patronymic are too badly damaged to yield sense.
Translation:
[·· ? ··] dedicated the two lavers.
Commentary:
Mentioned by Reynolds, Aphrodisias Papers I, 39. These lavers possibly belonged originally in the gymnasium mentioned on the architrave 1.174 (=Temple 12).
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
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- Face (1980)
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