Description: White marble statue base with egg and dart moulding on three sides (w: 0.645 × h: 0.75 × d: 0.59).
Text: Inscribed on the face (i) and on the right side (ii)
Letters: 0.05; Gaudin reported traces of paint in letters, alternating red and black.
Date: Mid second century CE (lettering, monument, group, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, West portico, 'Thermes, façade'
Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court: Caryatid portico
Last recorded location: Findspot
Translation
(i): Julia Paula, daughter of Gaius Apollodotos, high priestess, flower-bearer (scil. dedicated this).
(ii): Andronikos made (scil. the statue)
English translation
Translation source: Smith, 2007
Julia Paula, daughter of Gaius Apollodotos, high priestess (and) flower-bearer (anthephoros), (set up the statue). Andronikos made (it).
Bibliography
Transcription: Mendel, 1905 ; Boulanger, notebooks, A, 45, no.7; Gaudin, 1904, 115; New York University expedition I-168
Publication: Reinach, 1906 69 , whence Squarciapino, 1943 2 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 280 ; Erim and Reynolds, 1989 3 , whence SEG 40.926 ; Smith, 2007 B 20 (description); IAph2007 5.210.
Images
Fig. 1. Face i, in situ (Reynolds, 1966)
Fig. 2. Face i (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 3. Face i (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 4. Boulanger, A 45