5.207. Building dedication to Aphrodite and Hadrian by Pereitas Attalos
- Description:
- White marble lintel block, slightly damaged at right end (W. 2.16), with egg and dart moulding above three fasciae.
- Text:
- Inscribed in one line on all three fasciae (heights H. 0.09, H. 0.08, H. 0.06)
- Letters:
- Striking hand, with omicron and theta half the size of the upright letters; l.1, 0.055; ll.2, 3, 0.04.
- Date:
- A.D. 117-138 (reign)
- Findspot:
- Hadrianic Baths, East Court: Fallen at the south doorway of the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths, connecting the Galerie de l'Est with the south portico of the court.
- Original Location:
- Hadrianic Baths, East Court: over the door.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Excavated by Mendel in 1905; copied by Boulanger (notebook A, p.3); recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Mendel, CRAI 1906, 168a note 1, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 112 ; mentioned by Wilhelm, Jahreshefte 1933, 55-61, 56.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); notebook. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 θεᾷ Ἀφροδείτῃ star καὶ Αὐτοκράτορι Καίσαρι θεοῦ Τραϊανοῦ υἱῷ θεοῦ Νέρβα
- 2[υἱ]ωνῷ Τραϊανῷ Ἁδριανῷ Σεβαστῷκαὶ τῷ δήμῳ star Περείτας Ζήνωνος τοῦ Ζήνωνος
- 3 vac. Ἄτταλος τὸ περιφλίωμα hole ἐκ{κ} τῶν ἰδίων v. ἀνέθηκεν scroll
- 1ΘΕΑΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗ star ΚΑΙΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΙΚΑΙΣΑΡΙΘΕΟΥΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΥΥΙΩΘΕΟΥΝΕΡΒΑ
- 2[··]ΩΝΩΤΡΑΙΑΝΩΑΔΡΙΑΝΩΣΕΒΑΣΤΩΚΑΙΤΩΔΗΜΩ star ΠΕΡΕΙΤΑΣΖΗΝΩΝΟΣΤΟΥΖΗΝΩΝΟΣ
- 3 ΑΤΤΑΛΟΣΤΟΠΕΡΙΦΛΙΩΜΑ hole ΕΚΚΤΩΝΙΔΙΩΝ ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ scroll
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θεᾷ
Ἀφροδείτῃ
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καὶ
Αὐτοκράτορι
Καίσαρι
θεοῦ
Τραϊανοῦ
υἱῷ
θεοῦ
Νέρβα
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n="2"
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υἱ
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ωνῷ
Τραϊανῷ
Ἁδριανῷ
Σεβαστῷ
καὶ
τῷ
δήμῳ
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type="star"
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Περείτας
Ζήνωνος
τοῦ
Ζήνωνος
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n="3"
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extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
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Ἄτταλος
τὸ
περιφλίωμα
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type="hole"
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ἐκ
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n="superfluous"
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κ
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τῶν
ἰδίων
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extent="1"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
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ἀνέθηκεν
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Apparatus
The cutter had to avoid a hole in l. 3.
Translation:
To the goddess Aphrodite, to the Imperator Hadrian Augustus son of the god Trajan, grandson of the god Nerva, to the People: Pereitas Attalos son of Zenon the son of Zenon dedicated the ?decoration of the doorway at his own expense.
Commentary:
The same text was inscribed on the north-east doorway (5.208 =Mendel, 168b) with differences in layout and a different hand.
Photographs:
- Face (1973)
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Representations:
- Boulanger notebook A, page 3
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