5.206. Column dedication to Demos by Menippos Kodios and Papianos Kodios

Description:: White marble column bases, inscribed on a square face; i. (W. 0.59 × H. 0.09) is chipped along the upper and lower edges and broken away to the right; ii. no measurements.
Text:: Inscribed on the square face of each base.
Letters:: 0.02-0.022.
Date:: Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:: Hadrianic Baths, East Court: in the north section of the west portico. i on the base of third column, ii on the base of the second column, east face.
Original Location:: Hadrianic Baths, East Court, in the north section of the west portico. i on the base of third column, ii on the base of the second column, east face.
Last recorded location:: Findspot (1973)
History of discovery:: i and ii excavated by the French in 1913 (i: 22 October: Boulanger notebook A, 74 no 16, whence B 21, no. 25; ii: 20 October: Boulanger notebook A, 74 no 13, notebook B 21, no. 27); i recorded by the Italian Mission in 1937, and by the NYU expedition in 1973.
Bibliography:: i published by Jacopi, MonAnt 38, 1939, 227, no. 8, whence BE 1948.211, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 91
Text constituted from:: Transcription (Reynolds); publications. This edition Reynolds (2007).

i: 1[Μ]έν[ιππ]ος καὶ Παπιανὸς [τοῦ Ἀθηναγ]όρου τοῦ Μενίππου]; 2Κόδιοι τοὺς τέσσαρας κείονα̣[ς σὺ]ν ταῖς σπείραις καὶ ταῖς; 3 vac. scroll κεφαλεῖσιν τῷ Δήμῳ ἐκ [τῶν] ἰδίων ἀνέθηκαν
ii: 1[Μένιππος καὶ Παπιανὸς το]ῦ Ἀθηναγόρου τοῦ Μεν[ίππ]ου; 2[Κόδιοι τοὺς τέσσαρας κείο]νας σὺν ταῖς σπείραις καὶ ταῖς κε-; 3[? vac. φαλεῖσιν τῷ Δήμῳ ἐκ] τῶν ἰδίων ἀνέθηκαν vac.

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Apparatus

i. the text highlighted was read by Boulanger and /or Jacopi but not by us

i. l. 2, κοδροι, Boulanger

Translation:

Menippos Kodios and Papianos Kodios, sons of Athenagoras the son of Menippos dedicated the four columns with their tori and capitals to the Demos from their own funds.

Commentary:

One of the column base dedications from the west portico of the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths. From north section: 5.206 (=MiItal 8 i and ii), 5.201 (=Haussoullier 1), (unpublished) (=Boulanger A 73, no.11); from the south section (unpublished) (=Boulanger B, 21 no.28).

Speira is a standard term for the rounded moulding (torus) in the base of an Ionic or Corinthian column: IG I2 372.64; Sardis 7(1) no 181, Poll. 7.121, Vitruvius 3.5.3., 5.202 (=Museum 154), (unpublished) (=Museum 158); cf also (unpublished) (=68.272).