Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

5.305. Honours for Ulpia Carminia Prokla

Description: White marble upper plinth for a statue base or pilaster (w: 0.93–0.57 × h: 0.33 × d: 0.85-0.56).

Text: Inscribed on upper moulding (line 1) and on lower fascia (lines 2-3). The text may have continued on the feature below.

Letters: 0.025; apices for abbreviations; dot or circle for stop.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (nomenclature, lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, West portico: 'contre la face S. du pilier' (A) 'pylon N(ord).' (B) (Boulanger); at the west end (NYU).

Original location: Temple

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

((scroll)) Ἀγαθῇ ((star)) Τύχῃ ((scroll))
ἡ πατρίς ((stop)) παρὰ τῇ θεῷ
Οὐλ(πίαν) Καρμ(ινίαν) Πρόκλαν

Diplomatic

ΑΓΑΘΗ * ΤΥΧΗ
ΗΠΑΤΡΙΣ ΠΑΡΑΤΗΘΕΩ
ΟΥΛ ΚΑΡΜ ΠΡΟΚΛΑΝ

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

With Good Fortune: Ulpia Carminia Prokla: her fatherland (scil. set up her statue) beside the goddess

Bibliography

Transcription: Boulanger, notebooks, 13 October 1913, A,67, whence B, 39, no.1; New York University expedition , Baths 9

Publication: Smith, 2006 H.243 (listed), Smith, 2007 B 3 (description)

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)

Fig. 2. Boulanger notebook A, 67

Fig. 3. Boulanger notebook B, 39