Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.19. Column dedication

Description: White marble column plinth, simple moulding above and below, chipped along the top and at the right side (w: 0.44 × h: 0.115 × d: 0.15).

Text: Inscribed on one face (die w: 0.43 × h: 0.09); the text must have continued below.

Letters: 0.015-0.02

Date: Hadrianic 117/138 CE (archaeological context, lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Old Museum from earlier excavations.

Original location: PHadrianic Baths, East Court, West portico ?

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

Μάρ(κου) Αὐρ(ηλίου) Εὐπροσδέ-
κτου τοῦ Ἑρμείου τοῦ
[------]

Diplomatic

ΜΑΡΑΥΡΕΥΠΡΟΣΔΕ
ΚΤΟΥΤΟΥΕΡΜΕΙΟΥΤΟΥ
[------]

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

[---] Marcus Aurelius Euprosdektos son of Hermeias son of [---]

Commentary

One of the column base dedications from west portico of the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths. From north section: 5.206, 5.201, 5.221; from the south section 5.220, 5.202, 15.19; cf also 15.370

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition, among the old museum holdings, with an early museum inventory number (now Museum 158)

Publication: Wilson, 2016 8.16 (description).

Images

Fig. 1. 15.19, 11.202 (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)