Description: Lower part of a damaged white marble statue base (w: 0.53 × h: 0.465, 0.63 with upper moulding × d: 0.53) with egg and dart moulding.
Text: Inscribed on one face. An upper fragment of the moulding, inscribed with line 1, survives separately.
Letters: 0.035-0.04; circular outlined stops before and after abbreviation in line 2.
Date: Mid second century CE (lettering, monument, group, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, West portico: 'Portique O(uest)' ? Southern sector.
Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court: ?Caryatid portico
Last recorded location: Findspot
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
[Cocceia] Maxima daughter of M(arcus) Cocceius Antipatros Ulpianos, primipilarius, to the People
English translation
Translation source: Smith, 2007
[Cocceia Maxima?], daughter of M. Cocceius Antipater Ulpianus primipilarius (set up the statue) to the demos.
Commentary
One of the series of dedications from the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths: 5.7, 5.8 5.222, 5.209, 5.226, 5.224 1186(04), 1187 (04), 1188(04), 5.210, 5.211, 1191 (04), 5.227, 5.228, 5.229, 5.230, 5.231, 5.232, 5.212, 5.30, 1200(04), 1201(04), 1202(04), 1203(04), 5.233, 5.213, 5.223, 5.225, 1210(04); all are by women, and apparently bore caryatids (see 1198).
Bibliography
Transcription: Boulanger, notebooks A, p.73, nos. 9 and 10 (19 October 1913), whence B 36-7, nos. 9 and 10; New York University expedition in 1969, lower fragment Baths 2, I-139
Publication: Smith, 2007 B 21 (description)
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 2. Boulanger A 73
Fig. 3. Boulanger B 36-37