<rs type="textType">Dedication</rs> to Aphrodite by Artemidoros

Joyce M. Reynolds1982

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Originally published in Reynolds (1982).

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Description of Monument

Four joining fragments of a low white marble base (1.10 × 0.32 × 0.25); . On top are traces of the lost statuary; on the right the socle of an attached column, on the left a socket.

Description of Text

Inscribed face 0.98 × 0.18

Letters

0.025-0.03

Date

Perhaps first century B.C. (lettering)

Edition Ἀρτεμίδωρος Ἀρτεμιδώρου τοῦ Ἀπολλωνίου Ἀφροδίτῃ ὃν ἐπηνγίλατο Ἀρτεμίδωρος Ἀπολλωνίου
Apparatus

l. 1, Perhaps θεᾷ at the end

l. 2, The name of the goddess was probably erased in the Christian period.

Translation

Artemidoros son of Artemidoros the son of Apol[lonios] to Aphrodite or [the goddess] Aphrodite, (the statuary) which Artemidoros [?son of Apollonios] promised.

Commentary

See bibliography

Locations

Unknown b. & c. Temple/Church xiv, Stratum 1; a. South Agora: in stonepile, W. Portico of Tiberius. Museum (1978)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition over several years (c. 62.95, b. 62.96, a. 74.274)

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 26, whence SEG 1982.1097, BE 1983.386, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 153.

Photographs

Fragment a. (1977)
Fragments a. & b. (1977)
Fragments b. & c. (1977)
Assembled (1978)