Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

5.224. Fragment from dedication of a caryatid(?)

Description: Fragment without edges (w: 0.27 × h: 0.06 × d: 0.21) from a white marble statue base .

Text: Inscribed on the surviving face.

Letters: 0.042

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

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East Court: 'devant la grande entrée' (1905); Place of Palms/South Agora: West Portico, south-west corner (1969).

Original location: Hadrianic Baths: ?Caryatid portico

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

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[---] Ὑψικλε[ους ---]
[---]Υ̣Ο̣[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

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[---]ΥΨΙΚΛΕ[...---]
[---]..[---]
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Apparatus

Boulanger suggests (P(eut)ê(tre) du mème) that this is from the same base as 5.223, with which it was found.

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

. . . daughter/wife] of Hypsikles [ . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: Mendel, 1905; Boulanger, notebooks A, 57, no. 13b, whence B, 15, no.19; New York University expedition 69.489

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1969)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 3. Boulanger A 57

Fig. 4. Boulanger B 15