Description: Two white marble column plinths, inscribed on a square face; i: (w: 0.59 × h: 0.09) is chipped along the upper and lower edges and broken away to the right; ii: no measurements.
Text: Inscribed on the square face of each base.
Letters: 0.02-0.022.
Date: Hadrianic 117/138 CE (archaeological context, lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, West portico: in the north section: i on the base of third column, ii on the base of the second column, east face.
Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, West portico
Last recorded location: Findspot
Apparatus
i: The text highlighted was read by Boulanger and /or Jacopi but not by us
i.2: κοδροι, Boulanger
Translation
Both i and ii: Menippos Kodios and Papianos Kodios, sons of Athenagoras the son of Menippos dedicated the four columns with their tori and capitals to the Demos from their own funds.
Commentary
One of the column base dedications from west portico of the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths. From north section: 5.206, 5.201, 5.221; from the south section 5.220, 5.202, 15.19; cf also 15.370
Bibliography
Transcription: Boulanger, notebooks i: 22 October: A, 74, no. 16whence B 21, no. 25 (a); ii: 20 October: A, 74 no 13, whence B 21, no. 25 (b); Jacopi, 1937-38; New York University expedition 1973
Publication: i published by Jacopi, 1940 8 , whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1948.211 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 91 ; IAph2007 5.206; Wilson, 2016 8.1-4 (description).
Images
Fig. 1. i. Text (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 2. Boulanger notebook A, page 74
Fig. 3. Boulanger notebook B, page 21