5.9. ?Building dedication to Aphrodite and Hadrian

Description:
Fragments of white marble architrave blocks, with a heavy egg and dart moulding above the inscribed face; a-e, g, no measurements; f, W. 1.75 × H. 0.30 x depth not measurable; edge survives at right.
Text:
Inscribed on two fasciae.
Letters:
a: 0.05-0.08; b: 0.06-0.077; c: l.1 0.06, l.2, 0.025; f: 0.045; g: 0.072
Date:
A.D. 117/138 (reign)
Findspot:
a-e, g Hadrianic Baths, a-e 'grande salle' of the aleipterion, g 'Thermes, façade'; f Walls, West Gate: 'near the West Gate, partly buried' (Kubitschek);
Original Location:
Hadrianic Baths
Last recorded location:
stone pile in the east court of the Hadrianic Baths
History of discovery:
f copied by Kubitschek (K iii. facing 1); g recorded by Gaudin (126); a-e excavated by Mendel in 1905 (notebook A.5). a-c, and fragments of d and g recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
a-e published by Mendel, CRAI 1906, 171-172; f published by Cormack, from K&R, ABSA 59, 1964, 16, no. 1, whence Robert, AC 35, 1966, 391, BE 1967.548, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 114; g published by Reinach, 134, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 127.
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin; Boulanger; publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
a
1Θεᾷ Ἀφροδείτῃ καὶ [·· ? ··]
b
1[·· ? ··] αὐτοκράτορι Καίσαρι Θεοῦ Τραϊανοῦ Π[αρθικοῦ υἱῷ ·· ? ··] Τραϊανῷ Ἁδριανῷ [·· ? ··]
c
1 [·· ? ··] Εὐδάμου καὶ Ζήνωνος καὶ Ε̣ | ὐδάμου καὶ Καλλίου τῶν | [·· ? ··]
2 [·· ? ··] vac. καὶ λουτῆρσιν vac. | [·· ? ··]
d
1[·· ? ··Ζήν]ωνος τοῦ Εὐδάμου καὶ ὑπὲρ Ἀπφ[ί]ω[νος ·· ? ··]
e
1[·· ? ··ὑπέ]σχετο τὸ ἀλειπτήριον [·· ? ··]
f
1[·· ? ·· Ζήνω]νος τοῦ Εὐδάμου καὶ ὑπὲρ Ἀπφί̣ω̣[·· ? ··]
2[·· ? ·· Ζήν]ωνος τοῦ Εὐ[δάμου]
g
1[·· ? ··] ἀνέθηκεν [κ]αὶ τῷ [·· ? ··]
a
1ΘΕΑΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΚΑΙ[ - - - ]
b
1[ - - - ]ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΙΚΑΙΣΑΡΙΘΕΟΥΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΥΠ[·········· - - - ]ΤΡΑΙΑΝΩΑΔΡΙΑΝΩ[ - - - ]
c
1[ - - - ]ΕΥΔΑΜΟΥΚΑΙΖΗΝΩΝΟΣΚΑΙ·ΥΔΑΜΟΥΚΑΙΚΑΛΛΙΟΥΤΩΝ[ - - - ]
2[ - - - ]   ΚΑΙΛΟΥΤΗΡΣΙΝ     [ - - - ]
d
1[ - - - ···]ΩΝΟΣΤΟΥΕΥΔΑΜΟΥΚΑΙΥΠΕΡΑΠΦ[·]Ω[··· - - - ]
e
1[ - - - ···]ΣΧΕΤΟΤΟΑΛΕΙΠΤΗΡΙΟΝ[ - - - ]
f
1[ - - - ····]ΝΟΣΤΟΥΕΥΔΑΜΟΥΚΑΙΥΠΕΡΑΠΦ··[ - - - ]
2[ - - - ···]ΩΝΟΣΤΟΥΕΥ[·····]
g
1[ - - - ]ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ[·]ΑΙΤΩ[ - - - ]
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Θεᾷ
Ἀφροδείτῃ
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<ab>
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αὐτοκράτορι
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Τραϊανοῦ
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αρθικοῦ
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υἱῷ
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Τραϊανῷ
Ἁδριανῷ
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<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
Εὐδάμου
καὶ
Ζήνωνος
καὶ
<unclear reason="damage" >
Ε
</unclear>
<milestone unit="block" />
ὐδάμου
καὶ
Καλλίου
τῶν
<milestone unit="block" />
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<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
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καὶ
λουτῆρσιν
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<milestone unit="block" />
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</ab>
</div>
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<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ζήν
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ωνος
τοῦ
Εὐδάμου
καὶ
ὑπὲρ
Ἀπφ
<supplied reason="lost" >
ί
</supplied>
ω
<supplied reason="lost" >
νος
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="e" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
ὑπέ
</supplied>
σχετο
τὸ
ἀλειπτήριον
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</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="f" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ζήνω
</supplied>
νος
τοῦ
Εὐδάμ
ου
καὶ
ὑπὲρ
Ἀπφ
<unclear reason="damage" >
ίω
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
Ζήν
</supplied>
ωνος
τοῦ
Εὐ
<supplied reason="lost" >
δάμου
</supplied>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_fragment" n="g" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="left" />
ἀνέθηκεν
<supplied reason="lost" >
κ
</supplied>
αὶ
τ
ῷ
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</ab>
</div>

Apparatus

d and g: The highlighted letters on fragments found by the NYU expedition.

Translation:
No translation yet (2007).

Commentary:

Robert (l.c) suggested that f might be the same text as d. Mendel's copies are so summary that this could well be possible.

Photographs:

Fragment a (1973)
 Fragment a (1973)
Fragment b, left end (2005)
 Fragment b, left end (2005)
Fragment c, left end. (1978)
 Fragment c, left end. (1978)
Fragment c, right end. (1988)
 Fragment c, right end. (1988)
Fragment d. (1988)
 Fragment d. (1988)
Fragment g. (1988)
 Fragment g. (1988)

Representations:

Fragment f: Kubitschek notebook III, facing 1
 Fragment f: Kubitschek notebook III, facing 1
Boulanger, notebook A, page 5
 Boulanger, notebook A, page 5

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