Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

8.708. Altar dedication for Hadrian

Description: White marble altar, originally with moulding below on three sides (w: 0.30 × h: 0.69 × d: 0.345); top rough and perhaps intended to carry a crowning feature; hollowed out and re-used as a trough with a circular hole (? for a pipe) cut in the original face.

Text: Inscribed on one face.

Letters: 0.027

Date: 129-138 A.D. (reign, titulature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Theatre Baths: East Aula Thermale

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

Ἁδριανῷ
Σωτῆρι
( vac. ) Διὶ ( vac. )
[Ὀ]λυμπίῳ

Diplomatic

ΑΔΡΙΑΝΩ
ΣΩΤΗΡΙ
      ΔΙΙ      
[.]ΛΥΜΠΙΩ

Translation

To Hadrian the Saviour Zeus Olympios.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 74.73, SBI 11

Publication: IAph2007 8.708, whence AE 2007.1409.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)