Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.135. Dedication of a caryatid(?)

Description: Right side fragment from a white marble statue base with upper moulding on three sides, now largely lost (w: 0.49 × h: 0.65 × d: 0.53).

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.045

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

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora: West Portico Find 21

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

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[------]
θυγάτ̣[ηρ ---]
( vac. 1) Ἀμμι[..]
τῷ Δήμ̣[ῳ ( vac. )]

Diplomatic

[------]
ΘΥΓΑ.[..---]
  ΑΜΜΙ[··]
ΤΩΔΗ.[....]

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

[---] Ammi-[---] daughter of [---] to the People

English translation

Translation source: Smith, 2007

,[ ..... ] Ammia(?), daughter of [ ... ] (set up the statue) to the demos".

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 89.o, I-165

Publication: Smith, 2007 B 23 (description)

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1989)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1990)

Fig. 3. Face (M. Roueché, 1990)