5.213. Dedication of a ?caryatid by a Daughter of the City
- Description:
- White marble statue base (W. 0.45 × H. 0.63 × D. 0.55), with simple moulding above, which is badly damaged.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face. The text must have begun on the moulding.
- Letters:
- ll.1, 3, 0.055; l.2, 0.06
- Date:
- Second half of second century A.D. (lettering, monument group, prosopography).
- Findspot:
- South Agora: Portico of Tiberius: south-west corner.
- Original Location:
- Hadrianic Baths, East court: ?Caryatid portico
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot.
- History of discovery:
- Copied by Kubitschek (K III, facing 1) and by Boulanger (Not in A; B15, 22bis); recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 455, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 170.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Boulanger notebooks; Kubitschek; publication. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 0·· ? ··]-
- 1 α θυγάτηρ
- 2 πόλεως
- 3 τῇ Πατρίδι
- 0·· ? ··]
- 1ΑΘΥΓΑΤΗΡ
- 2ΠΟΛΕΩΣ
- 3ΤΗΠΑΤΡΙΔΙ
Translation:
·· ? ··] daughter of the city, to her homeland
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).
Cormack conjectured that this might be the remains of 5.8 (=Robert, Laodicée du Lycos 317-318); but that was separately recorded by Boulanger, p. 35, no. 19. It may, however, be an inscription concerning the same woman.
- Photographs:
- none.
Representations:
- Kubitschek notebook III, facing 1
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- Boulanger notebook B, 15
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