<rs type="textType">Statue dedication</rs> of Aphrodite

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Description of Monument

White marble statue base upper plinth, with moulding on three sides and roughed out, but not completed, on the back (0.36 × 1.20 × 1.03) There is a clamp hole on the underside for an attachment; the top is not currently visible. The plinth supported the statue of Aphrodite now in the Aphrodisias Museum.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the lower fascia (0.865 × 0.085). The stone is complete except for chipping at the upper right corner and along edges; the text must have been completed on a lower feature.

Description of Letters

well-cut, with elaborate serifs; 0.075

Date

Late second to early third centuries A.D. (lettering).

Edition θεὰν Ἀφροδείταν
Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

Translation

Goddess Aphrodite

Commentary

A staue of the goddess must have stood above: the name of the donor/dedicator no doubt followed. It would obviously be likely that the main civic deity should be honoured in the Bouleuterion, but it is hardly less appropriate in an Odeon.

Locations

Bouleuterion/Odeon UnknownStanding in the cavea of the Odeon (1993).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition (SBI 119; Odeon 17)

Bibliography

Previously unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1977)

93.A.6, 7