5.210. Dedication of a ?caryatid by Julia Paula, with sculptor's signature
- 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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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:
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