5.209. Dedication of a ?caryatid by Claudia Seleukeia
- Description:
- White marble statue base; probably with egg and dart moulding above.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.046
- Date:
- Mid second century A.D. (lettering, monument group, prosopography).
- Findspot:
- Hadrianic Baths: 'Façade de l'agora' (Gaudin)
- Original Location:
- Hadrianic Baths, East court: ?Caryatid portico
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Gaudin (151); transcribed from Reinach by Boulanger (notebook A 41, no.28); not reported subsequently.
- Bibliography:
- Published from Gaudin by Reinach, 28, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 161.
- Text constituted from:
- Gaudin's squeeze; publication. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 Κλ(αυδία) stop Σελεύ
- 2κεια stop Ἀπολ
- 3λωνίου θυ-
- 4γάτηρ τῷ
- 5 vac. Δήμῳ
- 1ΚΛ stop ΣΕΛΕΥ
- 2ΚΕΙΑ stop ΑΠΟΛ
- 3ΛΩΝΙΟΥΘΥ
- 4ΓΑΤΗΡΤΩ
- 5 ΔΗΜΩ
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Κλ
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αυδία
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Σελεύ
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κεια
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Ἀπολ
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λωνίου
θυ
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γάτηρ
τῷ
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Δήμῳ
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Translation:
Cl(audia) Seleukeia, daughter of Apollonios, 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).
- Photographs:
- none.
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