5.7. Dedication of a ?caryatid by Attalis

Description:
White marble statue base (W. 0.53-W. 0.61 × H. 0.66 × D. 0.535) with egg and dart moulding above, and with a hole in the top for the attachment of the statue.
Text:
Inscribed on the face
Letters:
0.05-0.055; l. 1, ΜΗ in ligature; guidelines visible.
Date:
Mid second century A.D. (lettering, monument group, prosopography).
Findspot:
Portico of Tiberius: west stoa
Original Location:
Hadrianic Baths, East court: ?Caryatid portico
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Excavated by the Italian expedition; found again by the NYU expedition (SBI 75).
Bibliography:
published by Jacopi, MonAL 38, 1939, 225, no. 6, whence BullEp 1948.211, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 162.
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publication This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 Ἀτταλὶς Μη-
2νοδότου v.
3τοῦ Νεικομά-
4χου ἀρχιερέ - v.
5ως ἱέρεια Ἀρε-
6τῆς τῷ Δήμῳ
1ΑΤΤΑΛΙΣΜΗ
2ΝΟΔΟΤΟΥ 
3ΤΟΥΝΕΙΚΟΜΑ
4ΧΟΥΑΡΧΙΕΡΕ 
5ΩΣΙΕΡΕΙΑΑΡΕ
6ΤΗΣΤΩΔΗΜΩ
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Ἀτταλὶς
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τοῦ
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τῆς
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Apparatus

l. 5, Σ cut over Ε

l. 6, Σ cut over Ε, but the upright has been partially erased

Translation:

Attalis daugher of Menodotos the son of Nikomachos, high priest, priestess of Arete, to the People.

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). For the priesthood of Arete, see Reynolds, Ruler-cult, 43, and 11.212.

Photographs:

Face (1991)
 Face (1991)

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