Description: Two blue marble columns; i: h: 1.13 × diam: 0.48
Text: i. inscribed at about 0.06 above moulding.
Letters: 0.03
Date: Second century CE (monument, lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths: Court of the aleipterion, 'salle aux vingt colonnes'.
Original location: Hadrianic Baths: Court of the aleipterion
Last recorded location: Findspot
Translation
Nestor and Zenon sons of Epigonos the son of Dioscurides dedicated the fourteen columns with the capitals at their own expense to the People
Commentary
These two columns are from a group of fourteen dedicated by Nestor and Zenon. Another four survive from the six dedicated by Artemon (5.2)
Bibliography
Transcription: Mendel, 1905; Boulanger, notebooks A, 7, b C, 9; New York University expedition 1988 (i only).
Publication: Mendel, 1906 172-173 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 130 and 131 ; IAph2007 5.205, whence Wilson, 2016 5.A.
Images
Fig. 1. i. Text from left (M. Roueché, 1988)
Fig. 2. i. Text from right (M. Roueché, 1988)
Fig. 3. Boulanger, notebook A, page 7