Description: A rectangular white marble statue base: 'largeur, 0.61', with moulding above on at least three sides.
Text: Lines 1 and 2 inscribed on the two fasciae of the upper moulding, 3 ff. on the face.
Letters: No description
Date: Mid second century CE (lettering, monument, group, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, West portico: 'En avant de la 5e colonne portique O(uest), n(ord)' (Boulanger)
Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court: ?Caryatid portico
Last recorded location: Hadrianic Baths (2002)
Apparatus
1-2: Γαΐα Τατία [Χρ?]/ησστεῖνα̣ Robert, 1969, IAph2007 whence LGPN http://www.lgpn.ox.ac.uk/id/V5b-13612The letters underlined were recorded by Boulanger, who also suggested [Χρ] at the end of the line
2: [Β]ησστεῖνα; [Φ]ησστεῖνα is also possible AC
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
Gaia Tatia [Chr]estina, high priestess, daughter of the city, to her homeland
English translation
Translation source: Smith, 2007
Ailia Tata [V]essteina, high priestess and daughter of the city (set up the statue) to the patris".
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, and others, currently in preparation for publication by Joyce Reynolds; all are by women, and apparently bore caryatids (see 5.212). .
Bibliography
Transcription: Boulanger, notebooks A, 77 no. 19 (27 October 1913), whence B, 34-35; New York University expedition in 2002
Publication: Robert, 1969 317-318, note 8, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 166 ; Smith, 2007 B 12 (description); IAph2007 5.8.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (2002, M. Roueché)
Fig. 2. Face (2002, M. Roueché)
Fig. 3. Top (2002, M. Roueché)
Fig. 4. Boulanger A 77
Fig. 5. Boulanger B 34-35