Description: White marble lintel block, slightly damaged at right end (w: 2.16), with egg and dart moulding above three fasciae.
Text: Inscribed in one line on all three fasciae (heights 0.09, 0.08, 0.06)
Letters: Striking hand, with omicron and theta half the size of the upright letters; line 1, 0.055; lines 2, 3, 0.04.
Date: A.D. 117-138 (reign)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, South portico: fallen at the south doorway of the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths, connecting the Galerie de l'Est with the south portico of the court.
Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court, over the door.
Last recorded location: Findspot
Apparatus
3: The cutter had to avoid a hole in line 3.
Translation
To the goddess Aphrodite, to the Imperator Hadrian Augustus son of the god Trajan, grandson of the god Nerva, to the People: Pereitas Attalos son of Zenon the son of Zenon dedicated the decoration(?) of the doorway at his own expense.
Commentary
The same text was inscribed on the north-east doorway (5.208) with differences in layout and a different hand.
Bibliography
Transcription: Mendel, 1905 ; Boulanger, notebooks A, 3; New York University expedition in 1973
Publication: Mendel, 1906 168a note 1, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 112 ; IAph2007 5.207; Wilson, 2016 6.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 2. Boulanger notebook A, page 3