Description:
White marble statue base with egg and dart moulding on three sides (W. 0.645 × H. 0.75 × D. 0.59).
Text:
Inscribed on the face (i) and on the right side (ii)
Letters:
0.05
Date:
Mid second century A.D. (lettering, monument group, prosopography).
Findspot:
Hadrianic Baths: 'Thermes, façade'
Original Location:
Hadrianic Baths, East court: ?Caryatid portico
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by Gaudin (115); transcribed from Reinach by Boulanger (notebook A, 45 no.7); recorded by the NYU expedition (SBI 168).
Bibliography:
Published from Gaudin by Reinach, 69, whence Squarciapino no. 2, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 280. Published by Erim and Reynolds, Sculptors, no. 3, whence SEG 1990.926.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; publications. This edition Reynolds (1991).
i
1 Ἰουλία Γαί-
2ου Ἀπολλο-
3δότου θυ-
4γάτηρ Παῦ-
5λα ἀρχιέρει-
6α ἀνθηφό-
7ρος
ii
1Ἀνδρόνει-
2κος ἐποί-
3ει
i
1ΙΟΥΛΙΑΓΑΙ
2ΟΥΑΠΟΛΛΟ
3ΔΟΤΟΥΘΥ
4ΓΑΤΗΡΠΑΥ
5ΛΑΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΙ
6ΑΑΝΘΗΦΟ
7ΡΟΣ
ii
1ΑΝΔΡΟΝΕΙ
2ΚΟΣΕΠΟΙ
3ΕΙ
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Ἀνδρόνει
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Translation:

i. Julia Paula, daughter of Gaius Apollodotos, high priestess, flower-bearer (dedicated this).

ii. Andronikos made (the statue)

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 i (1969)
 Face i (1969)
Face i (1973)
 Face i (1973)
Face i (1973)
 Face i (1973)

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