Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

5.7. Dedication of a caryatid(?) by Attalis

Description: White marble statue base (w: 0.53–0.61 × h: 0.66 × d: 0.535) with egg and dart moulding above, and with a hole in the top for the attachment of the statue.

Text: Inscribed on the face

Letters: 0.05-0.055; guidelines visible.

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

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

Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court, Caryatid portico

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

Ἀτταλὶς Μη-
νοδότου ( vac. 1)
τοῦ Νεικομά-
χου ἀρχιερέ - ( vac. 1)
5ως ἱέρεια Ἀρε-
τῆς τῷ Δήμῳ

Diplomatic

ΑΤΤΑΛΙΣΜΗ
ΝΟΔΟΤΟΥ  
ΤΟΥΝΕΙΚΟΜΑ
ΧΟΥΑΡΧΙΕΡΕ-   
5ΩΣΙΕΡΕΙΑΑΡΕ
ΤΗΣΤΩΔΗΜΩ

Apparatus

5: Σ cut over Ε
6: Σ cut over Ε, but the upright has been partially erased

Translation

Attalis daugher of Menodotos the son of Nikomachos, high priest, priestess of Arete, to the People.

English translation

Translation source: Smith, 2007

Attalis, daughter of Menodotos son of high priest Nikomachos, priestess of Arete, to the demos.

Commentary

One of the series of dedications from the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths:5.209, 5.7, 5.210, 5.211, 5.212, 5.213, 5.8, 5.212).

Bibliography

Transcription: Jacopi, 1937-38 ; New York University expedition, I-164

Publication: Jacopi, 1940 6 , whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1948.211 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 162 ; IAph2007 5.7; Smith, 2007 B 25c (description); Reynolds, 2006, whence AE 2008.1388, SEG 58.1152b

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1991)