Description: White marble statue base (w: 0.45 × h: 0.63 × d: 0.55), with simple moulding above, which is badly damaged.
Text: Inscribed on the face. The text must have begun on the moulding.
Letters: lines 1, 3, 0.055; line 2, 0.06
Date: Second half of second century CE (lettering, monument, group, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora: West Portico, south-east corner 'à l'angle S-E de la galerie de l'E(st)' (Boulanger).
Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court: ?Caryatid portico
Last recorded location: Findspot.
Translation
[------]-a, daughter of the city, to her homeland
English translation
Translation source: Smith, 2007
[ ... ]a, daughter of the city, to the patris
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, and apparently bore caryatids (see 5.212).
Bibliography
Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893, K.III, facing 1; Boulanger, notebooks, B 15, 22bis; Calder, 1934 New York University expedition
Publication: MAMA 8 455 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 170 ; Smith, 2007 B 25d (description); IAph2007 5.213; Wilson, 2016 9.19 (description).
Images
Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci)
Fig. 2. Kubitschek notebook III, facing 1
Fig. 3. Boulanger notebook B, 15