5.211. Dedication of a ?caryatid by Claudia Apphia Chaeremonis.
- Description:
- White marble statue base (W. 0.635 × H. 0.625 × D. 0.565) with egg and dart moulding above on three sides; the left side has been hollowed out ?for later re-use.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face
- Letters:
- 0.046
- Date:
- Mid second century A.D. (lettering, monument group, prosopography).
- Findspot:
- Hadrianic Baths, East Court: 'Thermes, façade principale' (Gaudin)
- Original Location:
- Hadrianic Baths, East court: ?Caryatid portico
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Gaudin (89); transcribed from Reinach by Boulanger (notebook A 43, no. 6); found again in 1971 by the NYU expedition (SBI 145).
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reinach, from Gaudin, 37, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 291.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; publications This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 leaf Κλαυδία
- 2Ἀκυλείνου
- 3 θυγάτηρ Ἀπ-
- 4φία Χαιρημο-
- 5νὶς ἀρχιέρεια
- 5a vacat
- 1 leaf ΚΛΑΥΔΙΑ
- 2ΑΚΥΛΕΙΝΟΥ
- 3ΘΥΓΑΤΗΡΑΠ
- 4ΦΙΑΧΑΙΡΗΜΟ
- 5ΝΙΣΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΙΑ
- 5a vacat
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Translation:
Claudia Apphia Chaeremonis, daughter of Aquilinus, high priestess (dedicated this)
Commentary:
One of the series of dedications from the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths:5.209, 5.7, 5.210, 5.211, 5.212, 5.213, 5.8, and others, currently in preparation for publication by Joyce Reynolds; all are by women, and apparently bore caryatids (see 5.212)..
- Photographs:
- none.
Representations:
- Boulanger notebook A, 43
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