Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

5.229. Dedication of a caryatid(?)

Description: Fragment from a white marble statue base with an egg and dart moulding: apparently an upper edge fragment.

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: No measurements.

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

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East Court

Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East Court, Caryatid portico

Last recorded location: Findspot (1913)

Interpretive

[---]Α̣ Ἀπφία [---]
[---θυγα]τὴρ [---]

Diplomatic

[---].ΑΠΦΙΑ[---]
[---....]ΤΗΡ[---]

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

[---] Apphia/Apphia[s ---] daughter [of ---]

Commentary

One annotation in B suggests ref. to 161191, but it can't quite fit.

Bibliography

Transcription: Mendel, 1905; Boulanger, notebooks A, 53, no 7, whence B, 13, no.17, C, 20

Images

Fig. 1. Boulanger notebook A, 53

Fig. 2. Boulanger notebook B, 13