Description:
White marble statue base (W. 0.635 × H. 0.625 × D. 0.565) with egg and dart moulding above on three sides; the left side has been hollowed out ?for later re-use.
Text:
Inscribed on the face
Letters:
0.046
Date:
Mid second century A.D. (lettering, monument group, prosopography).
Findspot:
Hadrianic Baths, East Court: 'Thermes, façade principale' (Gaudin)
Original Location:
Hadrianic Baths, East court: ?Caryatid portico
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by Gaudin (89); transcribed from Reinach by Boulanger (notebook A 43, no. 6); found again in 1971 by the NYU expedition (SBI 145).
Bibliography:
Published by Reinach, from Gaudin, 37, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 291.
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; publications This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1 leaf Κλαυδία
2Ἀκυλείνου
3 θυγάτηρ Ἀπ-
4φία Χαιρημο-
5νὶς ἀρχιέρεια
5a       vacat
1 leaf ΚΛΑΥΔΙΑ
2ΑΚΥΛΕΙΝΟΥ
3ΘΥΓΑΤΗΡΑΠ
4ΦΙΑΧΑΙΡΗΜΟ
5ΝΙΣΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΙΑ
5a       vacat
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Κλαυδία
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Ἀκυλείνου
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θυγάτηρ
Ἀπ
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φία
Χαιρημο
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νὶς
ἀρχιέρεια
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Translation:

Claudia Apphia Chaeremonis, daughter of Aquilinus, high priestess (dedicated this)

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.

Representations:

Boulanger notebook A, 43
 Boulanger notebook A, 43

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