Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

5.212. Dedication of a caryatid by Flavia Attalis Aeliane.

Description: White marble statue base (w: 0.485 × h: 0.65), with moulding above.

Text: Inscribed on moulding (line 1) and on face (lines 2 ff.).

Letters: 0.038

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

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East Court: 'Devant l'avant-dernier entrec(olonnement) du portique nord '

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

Last recorded location: Findspot (1913)

Interpretive

ὑπὲρ Φλαβίας ((scroll))
Ἀτταλίδος
Αἰλιανῆς τῆς
ἑαυτοῦ γυ-
5ναικος Τίτος
Φλάβιος Ἀθη-
ναγόρας Ἀγα-
θὸς τὴν καρυ-
ατιν τῷ Δήμῳ

Diplomatic

ΥΠΕΡΦΛΑΒΙΑΣ
ΑΤΤΑΛΙΔΟΣ
ΑΙΛΙΑΝΗΣΤΗΣ
ΕΑΥΤΟΥΓΥ
5ΝΑΙΚΟΣΤΙΤΟΣ
ΦΛΑΒΙΟΣΑΘΗ
ΝΑΓΟΡΑΣΑΓΑ
ΘΟΣΤΗΝΚΑΡΥ
ΑΤΙΝΤΩΔΗΜΩ

Apparatus

The location, 2e entrée IAph2007, corrected by Fabienne Marchand

Translation

On behalf of Flavia Attalis Aeliane his wife, Titus Flavius Athenagoras Agathos (scil. set up) the caryatid to the People.

English translation

Translation source: Smith, 2007

On behalf of Fl. Attalis Aeliana his wife, T. Fl. Athenagoras Agathos (set up) the caryatid (ten karuatin) to the demos.

Commentary

One of the series of dedications from the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths:5.209, 5.7, 5.210, 5.211, 5.212, 5.213, 5.8, and others, currently in preparation for publication by Joyce Reynolds; all are by women.

Bibliography

Transcription: Boulanger, notebooks A, p.77, no. 21 (30 October 1913), whence B 35, no.21.

Publication: Reynolds, 2002 247-251, whence SEG 59.1194; Smith, 2007 B 13 (description), 211; 5.212.

Images

Fig. 1. Boulanger notebook A, 77

Fig. 2. Boulanger notebook B, 35