Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

5.211. Dedication of a caryatid(?) by Claudia Apphia Chaeremonis.

Description: White marble statue base (w: 0.635 × h: 0.625 × d: 0.565) with egg and dart moulding above on three sides; the left side has been hollowed out for later re-use.

Text: Inscribed on the face

Letters: 0.046

Date: Mid second century CE (lettering, monument, group, prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths: East court/Palaestra, West portico, 'Thermes, façade principale' (Gaudin)

Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East court: ?Caryatid portico

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

((leaf)) Κλαυδία
Ἀκυλείνου
θυγάτηρ Ἀπ-
φία Χαιρημο-
5νὶς ἀρχιέρεια
( vac. 1 line)

Diplomatic

ΚΛΑΥΔΙΑ
ΑΚΥΛΕΙΝΟΥ
ΘΥΓΑΤΗΡΑΠ
ΦΙΑΧΑΙΡΗΜΟ
5ΝΙΣΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΙΑ
     vacat

Translation

Claudia Apphia Chaeremonis, daughter of Aquilinus, high priestess (scil. dedicated this)

English translation

Translation source: Smith, 2007

Claudia Apphia Chairemonis, daughter of Aquilinus, high priestess, (set up the statue).

Bibliography

Transcription: Gaudin, 1904 89, whence Boulanger, notebooks A.43, 6; New York University expedition in 1971, I-145

Publication: Reinach, 1906 37 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 291 ; Smith, 2007 B 19 (description); IAph2007 5.211.

Images

Fig. 1. Boulanger notebook A, 43