Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

5.232. Dedication of a caryatid(?)

Description: 'Fragment', apparently with part of left side surviving. Statue base.

Text: Inscribed on one face.

Letters: ΝΗ in ligature, line 1

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

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East Court: 'Cour de l'E(st) partie N.' (Boulanger)

Original location: Hadrianic Baths: ?Caryatid portico

Last recorded location: Findspot (1905)

Interpretive

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ΝΗΛ̣[---]
ΔΩΛ̣[---]
( vac. 2) Δ[ήμῳ ( vac. 2)]
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Diplomatic

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ΝΗ.[---]
ΔΩ.[---]
    Δ[.....]
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English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

[---] to the People [---]

Commentary

Fragment from one of the series of dedications from the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths: 1184, 1186, 1187, 1188, 1189, 1190, 1191, 1192, 1193, 1194, 1195, 1196, , 1198, 1199, 1200, 1201, 1202, 1203, 1204, 1205, 1206, 1207, 1208, 1209, 1210; all are by women, and apparently bore caryatids (see 1198).

Bibliography

Transcription: Boulanger, notebooks A, p.63, no 26 (1905), whence B 13, no.15.

Images

Fig. 1. Boulanger notebook A, 63

Fig. 2. Boulanger notebook B, 13