Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

5.9. Building dedication(?) to Aphrodite and Hadrian

Description: Fragments of white marble architrave blocks, with a heavy egg and dart moulding above the inscribed face; a-e, g, no measurements; f, w: 1.75 × h: 0.30 x depth not measurable; edge survives at right.

Text: Inscribed on two fasciae.

Letters: a: 0.05-0.08; b: 0.06-0.077; c: line 1 0.06, line 2, 0.025; f: 0.045; g: 0.072

Date: 117/138 CE (reign)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: a-e, g: Hadrianic Baths, a-e: 'grande salle' of the Aleipterion, g:East court/Palaestra, West portico, 'Thermes, façade'; f: Walls, West Gate: 'near the West Gate, partly buried' (Kubitschek);

Original location: Hadrianic Baths, Aleipterion

Last recorded location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court, stone pile

Interpretive

a
θεᾷ Ἀφροδείτῃ καὶ [---]
b
[---] αὐτοκράτορι Καίσαρι θεοῦ Τραϊανοῦ Π[αρθικοῦ υἱῷ ---] Τραϊανῷ Ἁδριανῷ [---]
c
[---] Εὐδάμου καὶ Ζήνωνος καὶ Ε̣ | ὐδάμου καὶ Καλλίου τῶν | [---]
[---] ( vac. 4) καὶ λουτῆρσιν ( vac. ) | ( vac. )
d
[---Ζήν]ωνος τοῦ Εὐδάμ̣ου καὶ ὑπὲρ Ἀπφ[ί]ω[νος ---]
e
[---ὑπέ]σχετο τὸ ἀλειπτήριον [---]
f
[---τ]οῦ Εὐδάμου καὶ ὑπὲρ Ἀπφί̣ω̣ | [---]
[--- Ζήν]ωνος τοῦ Εὐ[δάμου]
g
[---] ἀνέθηκεν [κ]αὶ τῷ [---]

Diplomatic

a
ΘΕΑΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΚΑΙ[---]
b
[---]ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΙΚΑΙΣΑΡΙΘΕΟΥΤΡΑΙΑΝΟΥΠ[..........---]ΤΡΑΙΑΝΩΑΔΡΙΑΝΩ[---]
c
[---]ΕΥΔΑΜΟΥΚΑΙΖΗΝΩΝΟΣΚΑΙ. | ΥΔΑΜΟΥΚΑΙΚΑΛΛΙΟΥΤΩΝ | [---]
[---]        ΚΑΙΛΟΥΤΗΡΣΙΝ       |       
d
[---...]ΩΝΟΣΤΟΥΕΥΔΑ.ΟΥΚΑΙΥΠΕΡΑΠΦ[.]Ω[...---]
e
[---...]ΣΧΕΤΟΤΟΑΛΕΙΠΤΗΡΙΟΝ[---]
f
[---.]ΟΥΕΥΔΑΜΟΥΚΑΙΥΠΕΡΑΠΦ.. | [---]
[---...]ΩΝΟΣΤΟΥΕΥ[.....]
g
[---]ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ[.]ΑΙΤΩ[---]

Apparatus

Letters only seen by previous expeditions are underlined
d.and.f: We have only seen a fragment of d. It is possible that this text (reported by Mendel) is the same as f (reported by Kubitschek): but Kubitschek appears to report a different findspot.
f: [--- Ζήνω]νος τοῦ Εὐδάμου καὶ ὑπὲρ Ἀπφί̣ω̣[---] / [--- Ζήν]ωνος τοῦ Εὐ[δάμου] IAph2007

English translation

Translation source: Wilson, 2016

(a): To the goddess Aphrodite and [ . . .

(b): . . . ] to the Imperator Caesar [son] of the deified Trajan P[arthicus . . . ] Trajan Hadrian [ . . .

(c): . . . ] of Eudamos and of Zenon and of Kallios the [ . . . ]
. . . ] and for the basins

(d): . . . of Zen]on the son of Eudamos and on behalf of Apph[i]o[n . . .

(e): . . . ] promised the aleipterion [ . . .

(f): . . . of Zeno]n the son of Eudamos and on behalf of Apphio[n . . .
. . . of Zen]on the son of Eudamos

(g): . . . ] dedicated and to the [ . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893, K.III. facing 1 (f); Mendel, 1905 (a-e); Gaudin, 1904 126 (g); Boulanger, notebooks, A, 5 (a-e) from Mendel 1905,, A, 47 (g) ; New York University expeditiona-c, and fragments of d and g.

Publication: a-e: Mendel, 1906 171-172; f: Cormack, 1964 1 , whence Robert, 1966 391, Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1967.548 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 114 ; g: Reinach, 1906 134 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 127 ; assembled IAph2007 5.9; Wilson, 2016 4.

Images

Fig. 1. Fragment a (M. Roueché, 1992)

Fig. 2. Fragment b, left end (Graham, 2005)

Fig. 3. Fragment c, left end. (M. Roueché, 1978)

Fig. 4. Fragment c, right end. (M. Roueché, 1988)

Fig. 5. Fragment d. (M. Roueché, 1988)

Fig. 6. Fragment g. (M. Roueché, 1988)

Fig. 7. Fragment f: Kubitschek notebook III, facing 1

Fig. 8. Boulanger, notebook A, page 5

Fig. 9. Boulanger, notebook A, 47, no. 10


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