Description: 28 pieces, complete or fragmentary, of white marble
architrave blocks.
Text:
Inscribed in a single line on one fascia.
Letters: 'Grandes lettres à apices de 0m,072 profond et soigneusement gravées' (text i); 0.085 (text ii); i.b. standard forms; 0.08
Date: 117/138 CE (reign)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Hadrianic Baths,
East court/Palaestra, East portico, from the entablature.
i. 'Elle est gravée une seule fois et sous une forme abrégée sur le portique de l'Ouest, interrompu par le grand arc';
ii. "Elle est rejetée sur les 2. sect. du portique E. de part et d'autre de la porte centrale"
Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, West portico,
Last recorded location: In various locations in the east court of the Hadrianic Baths
Interpretive
i a
ἡ Ἀφ | ροδείτη Α | ὐτοκράτορι | Καίσαρι Τραι | [α]νῷ Ἁδριαν | ῷ Σεβαστῷ Ὀλυ | [μπ]ίῳ Παν | [ελ]λη | νίῳ καὶ τῷ Δ | ήμῳ τὸν ἐπιφερ | όμενον τ | οῖς κειοσιν ΚΑ | [---κ] | εφαλα | ις λε[---]θον κόσ[μ]ον πα[---] b
[--- κατ]αλειφθέντων αὐ̣[τῇ ---] τ̣οῦ Διοσκουριδο̣[υ ---] ii
((#fleuron)) ἡ Ἀφρο | δείτη Αὐ | [τοκράτορι c. 20 Σεβ]ασ[τ]ῳ Ὀλυ | [μπίῳ c. 19] Δή | μῳ τὸν ἐπιφερόμε | [---] | Σ κείοσι | ν καὶ ταῖς κεφαλαῖς λ | ευκό | λιθον κόσμον | [c. 60] | ἀνέθηκεν ((scroll)) ( vac. 3) iii
[---]Α̣ΡΑΤΟ̣ [---] ΚΑΙ[---] [κ]αὶ τῷ | Δήμῳ ((#fleuron)) iv
( vac. 3) κόσμ | ον πάντα ἐκ τῶν ἰ | δίων καὶ ἐ | κ τῶν κατ[αλειφθέν] | των αὐτ[ῇ] ὑπὸ Ἐπιγ[όνου] | τοῦ Διοσκορίδου ἀν | έθηκεν ((scroll))
Diplomatic
ia
ΗΑΦ | ΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΑ | ΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΙ | ΚΑΙΣΑΡΙΤΡΑΙ | [.]ΝΩΑΔΡΙΑΝ | ΩΣΕΒΑΣΤΩΟΛΥ | [..]ΙΩΠΑΝ | [..]ΛΗ | ΝΙΩΚΑΙΤΩΔ | ΗΜΩΤΟΝΕΠΙΦΕΡ | ΟΜΕΝΟΝΤ | ΟΙΣΚΕΙΟΣΙΝΚΑ | [---.] | ΕΦΑΛΑ | ΙΣΛΕ[---]ΘΟΝΚΟΣ[.]ΟΝΠΑ[---] b
[---...]ΑΛΕΙΦΘΕΝΤΩΝΑ.[..---].ΟΥΔΙΟΣΚΟΥΡΙΔ.[.---] ii
#fleuron ΗΑΦΡΟ | ΔΕΙΤΗΑΥ | [.........····················...]ΑΣ[.]ΩΟΛΥ | [....···················]ΔΗ | ΜΩΤΟΝΕΠΙΦΕΡΟΜΕ | [---] | ΣΚΕΙΟΣΙ | ΝΚΑΙΤΑΙΣΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΣΛ | ΕΥΚΟ | ΛΙΘΟΝΚΟΣΜΟΝ | [····························································] | ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ iii
[---].ΡΑΤ.[---]ΚΑΙ[---.]ΑΙΤΩ | ΔΗΜΩ #fleuron iv
ΚΟΣΜ | ΟΝΠΑΝΤΑΕΚΤΩΝΙ | ΔΙΩΝΚΑΙΕ | ΚΤΩΝΚΑΤ[........] | ΤΩΝΑΥΤ[.]ΥΠΟΕΠΙΓ[....] | ΤΟΥΔΙΟΣΚΟΡΙΔΟΥΑΝ | ΕΘΗΚΕΝ
Apparatus
Blocks or fragments found again by the NYU expedition are highlighted. As Boulanger points out, this adds up to three copies
(two on the east side of the east court and one on the west) of one text: ἡ Ἀφροδείτη Αὐτοκράτορι Καίσαρι Τραιανῷ Ἁδριανῷ Σεβαστῷ Ὀλυμπίῳ Πανελληνίῳ καὶ τῷ Δήμῳ τὸν ἐπιφερόμενον τοῖς κείοσιν καὶ ταῖς
κεφαλαῖς λευκόλιθον κόσμο̣ν πάντα ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων καὶ ἐκ τῶν καταλειφθέντων αὐτ[ῇ] ὑπὸ Ἐπιγ[όνου] τοῦ Διοσκουρίδου ἀνέθηκεν.
iv: ΚΑΤ| . . . . . . . . |ΤΩΝ ΑΥΤ| . | Boulanger; κατ[αλειφθέν]|των αὐτ[ῇ] Robert
English translation
Translation source: Wilson, 2016
To the Imperator Caesar Trajan Hadrian Augustus, Olympios, Panhellenios, and to the People, Aphrodite dedicated all the white
marble decoration placed on the columns and on the capitals from her own resources, and from the bequest given to her by Epigonos
son of Dioscurides.
Bibliography
Transcription: Mendel, 1905 ; Boulanger, notebooks A, 1, A, 2; New York University expedition Several blocks or fragments (indicated by highlighting) have been found again by the NYU expedition.
Publication: Mendel, 1906 167 (part), whence Marshall, 1906 381; Boulanger, 1914 49, note 2, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 111, 132 ; IAph2007 5.5; Wilson, 2016 7
