Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.126. Dedication of a caryatid(?).

Description: Piece from upper right corner of a badly damaged white marble statue base (0.54, with traces of egg and dart moulding at the top.

Text: Inscribed on the face, w: 0.36 × h: 0.49 × d: 0.54.

Letters: 0.05

Date: Mid second century CE (lettering, monument, group, prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora: clearing north part of North portico

Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court: ?Caryatid portico

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[--- Ἀ]ντωνια̣
[---]ηστα ( vac. 1)
[--- τῷ] ( vac. 1) Δήμ̣[ῳ]

Diplomatic

[---.]ΝΤΩΝΙ.
[---]ΗΣΤΑ  
[---..]  ΔΗ.[.]

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

[--- A]ntonia [--- Chr?]esta [--- to the] People.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 72.435.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1972)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)