Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

5.30. Dedication of a caryatid(?)

Description: White marble statue base with upper moulding, which is broken (w: 0.50 × h: 0.63 × d: 0.55); there is a hole in th top for an attachment.

Text: Inscribed on moulding (lines 1-2) and on the face, w: 0.39.

Letters: Not particularly well cut; 0.04- 0.045.

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

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths: clearing in North Tepidarium

Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court ?Caryatid portico

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

[.] Ο̣ὐ̣λ̣π̣[ία Ἀπο-]
[λ]λωνίου π̣ρ̣ε̣[ιμο-]
πειλαρίου καὶ
ἀπὸ στρατο-
5πεδαρχίας
θυγατὴρ Ἀπολ-
λωνία τῇ Πα-
((scroll))τρίδι ((leaf))

Diplomatic

[·]....[.....-]
[.]ΛΩΝΙΟΥ...[...-]
ΠΕΙΛΑΡΙΟΥΚΑΙ
ΑΠΟΣΤΡΑΤΟ
5ΠΕΔΑΡΧΙΑΣ
ΘΥΓΑΤΗΡΑΠΟΛ
ΛΩΝΙΑΤΗΠΑ
ΤΡΙΔΙ

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

Ulpia Apollonia, daughter of Apollonios, primipilarius, and former camp prefect, to the Homeland.

English translation

Translation source: Smith, 2007

Ulpia Apollonia, daughter of Apollonius, primipilarius and former camp prefect (apo stratopedarchias) (set up the statue) to the patris.

Commentary

4.131 is the same text, but with a different layout.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 66.425.

Publication: Smith, 2007 B 11 (description)

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1966)

Fig. 2. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1966)

Fig. 3. Top (M. Roueché, 1978)