Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.136. Fragments from dedication of a caryatid(?).

Description: Three fragments from the upper edge of ? the same white marble statue base with an upper egg and dart moulding. No measurements. a, apparently broken on both sides, but with top surviving; b, fragment from an upper edge, sides broken; c, fragment from right hand corner.

Text: Inscribed on one face.

Letters: No measurements.

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

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora: West Portico: 'Galerie de l'Est' (Boulanger)

Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court, Caryatid portico

Last recorded location: Findspot (1905)

Interpretive

a
[---]Α γυ[ν?---]
[---]ΙΣΥ̣[---]
[---]Τ̣[---]
b
[--- Κλ]αυδία [---]
[---το?]ῦ̣ ΕΝ[---]
[---]Υ θ[υγατὴρ? ---]
c
[---]Α
[---]Ν
[---]ΓΑ
[---]ΙΑ

Diplomatic

a
[---]ΑΓΥ[.---]
[---]ΙΣ.[---]
[---].[---]
b
[---..]ΑΥΔΙΑ[---]
[---..].ΕΝ[---]
[---]ΥΘ[......---]
c
[---]Α
[---]Ν
[---]ΓΑ
[---]ΙΑ

Apparatus

a.3: just traces of a horizontal survive.

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

(a): . . . ] wife [ . . .

(b): [--- Cl]audia [---] ?d[aughter ---]

(c): not translatable

Bibliography

Transcription: Mendel, 1905; Boulanger, notebooks A, 51, no 4, whence B, 13, no.18; not in C

Images

Fig. 1. Boulanger notebook A, 51

Fig. 2. Boulanger notebook B, 13