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

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

Small white marble stele (0.13 × 0.21 × 0.95), damaged above and at the bottom right corner, consisting of an inscribed base with oblique left side (right side lost) carrying a nude male three-quarter figure with head surviving as far as the chin only, arms as far as the elbows and legs as far as the knees.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

l.1, 0.012, l.2, 0.008.

Date

Probably first century A.D. (lettering)

Edition Ἀφροδίτῃ χηαν

Translation

To Aphrodite dedicated

Commentary

Aphrodite's name may have been followed by a cult title, or by the name of a female dedicator, with ἀνέθηκε in full or incomplete

Locations

Unknown Found: South Agora: 'P. of T. SE 86-1'. ; Last known location: Museum (1989)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1986 (86.28).

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1989)