5.8. Dedication of a ?caryatid by Gaia Tatia Chresteina
- Description:
- A rectangular white marble statue base: 'largeur, H. 0.61', with moulding above on at least three sides.
- Text:
- Lines 1 and 2 inscribed on the two fasciae of the upper moulding, 3 ff. on the face.
- Letters:
- No description
- Date:
- Second half of second century A.D. (monument group, prosopography).
- Findspot:
- Hadrianic Baths, East Court: 'En avant de la 5e colonne portique O(uest), n(ord)' (Boulanger)
- Original Location:
- Hadrianic Baths, East court: ??Caryatid portico
- Last recorded location:
- East Court (2002)
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by Boulanger, 27 October 1913 (notebook A, 77 no. 19 whence B.34-5, no. 19); found by the NYU expedition in 2002.
- Bibliography:
- published, from Boulanger, Robert, Laodicée du Lycos, 317-318, note 8, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 166.
- Text constituted from:
- Notebooks. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 Γαΐα Τατία
- 2[Χρ]ησστεῖνα
- 3ἀρχιέρεια θυγά-
- 4τηρ πόλεως
- 5τῇ Πατρίδι leaf
- 1ΓΑΙΑΤΑΤΙΑ
- 2[··]ΗΣΣΤΕΙΝΑ
- 3ΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΙΑΘΥΓΑ
- 4ΤΗΡΠΟΛΕΩΣ
- 5ΤΗΠΑΤΡΙΔΙ leaf
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Translation:
Gaia Tatia Chrestina, high priestess, daughter of the city, to her homeland
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:
- Face (2002)
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- Face (2002)
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- Top (2002)
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