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Originally published in Roueché (2004).
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Description of Monument
A rectangular white marblestatue base shaft (0.56 × 1.24 × 0.50) with panels within moulded edges on all four sides.
Description of Text
Cut on opposite faces within the panels (1.08 × 0.46); the upper edge is complete, although the right side of i. (= left side of ii.) is broken away. Text i. must have begun on a crowning feature.
Description of Letters
i. 0.02; ligatures: MNH l. 8, TH l. 8, NN l. 10, NT l. 13, HN l. 20. ii. 0.03-0.07; very irregular, clearly cut.
Date
i. Second to third centuries A.D.
(lettering); ii. Late fifth/sixth century (language, lettering).
i. l. 12, the second sigma was not read by Boulanger; it was omitted by the mason, and then inserted very lightly.
i. l. 14, ΠΥΡΡΩΝΑ JMR, D-B, lapis; Εὔφρωνα Boulanger, whence LR.
i. l. 18, ΕΙΛΙ Boulanger, corrected by LR
i. l. 27, ΓΕΝΟΥΣΕΙΝΟΥ Boulanger (A) whence γένους Εὐνου (B).
Translation
i. [ . . . ] and the chrysophoroi neopoioi of the most holy god Aphrodite (put up) beside the God who is asylos, according to the decisions conveyed by decrees and instructions of the most powerful Council, the (statue of the) most pure neokoros of the goddess Aphrodite and most trustworthy oikonomos of the City, Pyrron son of Itharos (son of Itharos son of Itharos) son of Menippos, on account of his goodwill andgood faith and integrity and piety towards the God. Marcus Aurelius Aelius Antoninos son of Diogenes son of Solon, archon of the most powerful Council, was responsible for the erection of the statue.
ii. Hermias gave three thousands of gold to this bath, and obtained an everliving fame lit. memory.
Commentary
i. No commentary yet (2007)
ii. See discussion at V.51, V.53.
Locations
Found: Hadrianic Baths, East court: 'Cour de l'E(st) face S.' (Boulanger, notebook A); 'Portique s(ud)' (notebook B). . Original location: Findspot.. Last recorded location: Hadrianic Baths: southern colonnade of the East Court (2004).
History of Recording
Excavated by Mendel in 1905; recorded by Boulanger (notebook A, 58 no. 15 & 59 no. 16, whence B, 7, no. 6 & 9, no. 7); recorded by J. and L. Robert; recorded by the NYU expedition (Baths 4, SBI 137a).
Bibliography
i. (lines 1-17) from Boulanger's copy by L. Robert, Etudes Anatoliennes (Paris, 1937), 299, n. 2, whence McCabePHI Aphrodisias275. ii. Published by Grégoire, IGC277, from Mendel; by Robert, Hellenica 4, 130 and plate, whence BE1949.178; by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 74 and plate xviii, whence McCabePHI Aphrodisias705, Steinepigramme02/09/15.