Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.131. Dedication of a caryatid(?)

Description: White marble statue base with simple moulding above on three sides (w: 0.61 × h: 0.50 × d: 0.51), broken away below; there is a rectangular hole in the top.

Text: Inscribed on upper moulding, which is chipped (l. 1), on lower moulding (line 2) and (line 3 following) on the face, which is damaged.

Letters: 0.045

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

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora: West Portico, south west corner.

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

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

Οὐλπία Ἀπολλων[ί-]
ου πρειμοπειλαρί-
ου καὶ ἀπὸ στρα-
τοπεδαρχίας
5θ̣υ̣γ̣ατὴρ Ἀπολ-
λωνία τῇ Πα-
((scroll))τρίδι ((scroll))

Diplomatic

ΟΥΛΠΙΑΑΠΟΛΛΩΝ[.-]
ΟΥΠΡΕΙΜΟΠΕΙΛΑΡΙ
ΟΥΚΑΙΑΠΟΣΤΡΑ
ΤΟΠΕΔΑΡΧΙΑΣ
5...ΑΤΗΡΑΠΟΛ
ΛΩΝΙΑΤΗΠΑ
ΤΡΙΔΙ

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

Ulpia Apollonia, daughter of Apollonios, primipilarius, and former camp prefect, to her homeland

English translation

Translation source: Smith, 2007

Ulpia Apollonia daughter of Apollonius, primipilarius and former camp prefect (apostratopedarchias) (set up the statue) to the patris.

Commentary

5.30 is the same text, but with a different layout.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 84.55, I-75.

Publication: Smith, 2007 B 25a (description); Reynolds, 2006, whence AE 2008.1387, SEG 58.1152a.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1984)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1985)