Description: White marble lintel block, with egg and dart moulding above three fasciae, now broken into two fragments.
Text: Inscribed on all three fasciae, two lines on the upper fascia and one each on the lower two.
Letters: Regular hand, without the variations in size of the matching inscription, 5.207; 0.025.
Date: A.D. 117-138 (reign)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, North portico: fallen at the north doorway, connecting the Galerie de l'Est with the north portico of the court.
Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court over the north door
Last recorded location: Findspot
Apparatus
Letters highlighted were recorded by Boulanger, but not subsequently.
1: The Δ in Ἀφροδείτῃ is damaged, perhaps but not certainly erased.
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 south-east doorway (5.207) with differences in layout and a different hand.
Bibliography
Transcription: Mendel, 1905; Boulanger, notebooks A, 3; New York University expedition in 1985
Publication: Mendel, 1906 168 note 1b, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 113 ; IAph2007 5.208; Wilson, 2016 6.
Images
Fig. 1. Left hand fragment (M. Roueché, 1985)
Fig. 2. Right hand fragment (M. Roueché, 1985)
Fig. 3. Right hand fragment, left end (M. Roueché, 1985)
Fig. 4. Right hand fragment, centre (M. Roueché, 1985)
Fig. 5. Right hand fragment, right end (M. Roueché, 1985)
Fig. 6. Boulanger notebook A, page 3