Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.1. Building dedications by Claudia Antonia

Description: Three white marble columns, fluted above: i. standing, facing north west; very weathered. ii. standing, facing north west. iii. fragment of a column shaft.

Text: Each inscribed below fluting; i. at 1.35 above base; ii. at 1.34.

Letters: 0.07

Date: Second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora, North portico: i, Column 18, ii, column 19, iii apparently from column 20, from east end

Original location: Place of Palms/South Agora, North portico

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

i
Κλ(αυδία)
Ἀντω-
νία
ii
Κλ(αυδία)
Ἀντω-
νία
iii
Κλ(αυδία)
Ἀντω-
νία

Diplomatic

i
ΚΛ
ΑΝΤΩ
ΝΙΑ
ii
ΚΛ
ΑΝΤΩ
ΝΙΑ
iii
ΚΛ
ΑΝΤΩ
ΝΙΑ

Translation

Cl(audia) Antonia

Commentary

Robert suggested that the donor might be Claudia Antonia Tatiana; but there is no clear support for this.

Bibliography

Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893, K.III.38 (i. and ii); Jacopi, 1937-38 (i. and ii); New York University expedition (i, ii and iii)

Publication: i: Jacopi, 1940 7, p.226, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1948.211 ; i and ii: Cormack, 1964 24, whence Robert, 1966 399-400, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1967.550, AE 1967.488, McCabe, PHI, 1996 88, 89, 90 ; i, ii and iii: IAph2007 4.1; Chaniotis, 2024 NS51, NS59, NS60

Images

Fig. 1. i. Column (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 2. i. Text (M. Roueché, 1988)

Fig. 3. ii. Column (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 4. ii. Text (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 5. iii. Column (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 6. iii. Text (M. Roueché, 1985)

Fig. 7. iii. face (M. Roueché, 2002)

Fig. 8. Texts i and ii: Kubitschek notebook III, 38