Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004
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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).
Text
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[?...] Παλλάδιος v. ἐ̣[?...]-
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[π]ο̣ίει καὶ ἀνέθηκεν.
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Translation
[?Fl(avius)] Palladius made and dedicated ?me.
Apparatus
Possibly: [Φλ(άβιος)] Παλλάδιος v. ἐ̣[μὲ]
|[ἐπ]ο̣ίει καὶ ἀνέθηκεν.
Photographs
Representations
| Transcription by Boulanger, notebook A, p. 67
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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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