252. Dedication by [Flavius ]Palladius

Description

Monument: Fragment of ?white marble cornice or perhaps column capital, with a face between simple upper and lower moulding, and moulding on the underside. Broken at both sides.
Text: Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Simple and curved, c. 0.04.
Date: First half of the fourth century (lettering, formulae).

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	[?...] Παλλάδιος ^v. ἐ[?...]-
	[π]οίει καὶ ἀνέθηκεν.

Translation

[?Fl(avius)] Palladius made and dedicated ?me.

Apparatus

Possibly: [Φλ(άβιος)] Παλλάδιος ^v. ἐ[μὲ] |[ἐπ]οίει καὶ ἀνέθηκεν.

Photographs

Face (1988)

Representations

Transcription by Boulanger, notebook A, p. 67

Commentary

For Palladius see discussion at II.25.

For the formula of dedication see 11 and 12, the inscriptions of the sculptor Flavius Zeno; for the phrasing suggested here as an alternative see the inscriptions of Helladius, 17 and 18, which closely resemble this in appearance.

Locations

Found: Hadrianic Baths: 'grande salle de l'al(eipterion)' (Boulanger); found in the chamber at the E(ast) side of the east court (NYU).
Original: Unknown.
Last Recorded: Museum.

History

Recording: Excavated by Boulanger, 15 October 1913 (notebook A 67, no.2, whence B 38-9, no. 2); recorded by the NYU expedition in 1988 (88.13).
Bibliography: Published, from Roueché's copy, by •Erim and Reynolds (1991), no.16 and plate, whence SEG 1990.939.
Text constituted from: Boulanger notebook; Transcription (Roueché).

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