<rs type="textType">Building dedication</rs> to Aphrodite and emperors

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

28 pieces, complete or fragmentary, of white marble architrave blocks.

Description of Text

Inscribed in a single line on one fascia.

Letters

'Grandes lettres à apices de 0m,072 profond et soigneusement gravées' (text i); 0.085 (text ii); i.b. standard forms; 0.08

Date

A.D. 117/138 (reign)

Edition
The text which follows is transcribed from the notebook, with annotations
ἡ Ἀφροδείτη Αὐτοκράτορι Καίσαρι Τραιανῷ Ἁδριανῷ Σεβαστῷ Ὀλυμπίῳ Πανελληνίῳ καὶ τῷ Δήμῳ τὸν ἐπιφερόμενον τοῖς κειοσιν κα εφαλαις λεθον κόσμον πα
To this, at the end, Boulanger wanted to add the architrave block, although it is inscribed on two fasciae (0.265 x 0.85 x 0.495: these are the regular measurements for architraves in the North Portico) found by him, and again in 1992 in the North Portico of the Portico of Tiberius (and now in situ): καταλειφθέντων αὐτῇ τοῦ Διοσκουριδου
Portique de l'Est, section S. 10 blocs ou fragments. ἡ Ἀφροδείτη Αὐ ασῳ Ὀλυ μῳ τὸν ἐπιφερόμε ς κείοσιν καὶ ταῖς κεφαλαῖς λευκόλιθον κόσμον ἀνέθηκεν
αρατοΚΑΙ καὶ τῷΔήμῳ
Portique O, section N. 8 blocs ou fragments κόσμὸν πάντα ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων καὶ ἐκ τῶν καταλειφθέντων αὐτῇ ὑπὸ Ἐπιγόνου τοῦ Διοσκορίδου sic ἀνέθηκεν
Apparatus

Blocks or fragments found again by the NYU expedition are highlighted.

iv. ΚΑΤ| . . . . . . . . |ΤΩΝ ΑΥΤ| . | Boulanger; κατ[αλειφθέν]|των αὐτ[ῇ] Robert

As Boulanger points out, this adds up to three copies (two on the east side of the east court and one on the west) of one text: ἡ Ἀφροδείτη Αὐτοκράτορι Καίσαρι Τραιανῷ Ἁδριανῷ Σεβαστῷ Ὀλυμπίῳ Πανελληνίῳ καὶ τῷ Δήμῳ τὸν ἐπιφερόμενον τοῖς κείοσιν καὶ ταῖς κεφαλαῖς λευκόλιθον κόσμον πάντα ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων καὶ ἐκ τῶν καταλειφθέντων αὐτῇ ὑπὸ Ἐπιγόνου τοῦ Διοσκουρίδου ἀνέθηκεν.

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Boulanger; publications.

Translation

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Commentary

[[JMR comments: This raises a point about the meaning of ἀνέθηκεν the goddess has ἴδια from which to build—but does she really dedicate? And how surprising for the names of the neopoioi (who surely controlled her funds) to be omitted?]]

Locations

; Original location: From the entablature of the west portico (i) and the east portico (ii a and b) of the East court of the Hadrianic Baths: i. 'Elle est gravée une seule fois et sous une forme abrégée sur le portique de l'Ouest, interrompu par le grand arc'; ii. "Elle est rejetée sur les 2. sect. du portique E. de part et d'autre de la porte centrale" Found: In the east court of the Hadrianic Baths ; Last known location: In various locations in the east court of the Hadrianic Baths.

History of Recording

Excavated by the French expeditions in 1904, 1905 and 1913. Boulanger published fragmentary versions, but gives a fuller account in his notebook, put together after Mendel's publication: "M. Mendel qui n'avait pu rapprocher sur le terrain les fragments de l'architrave du portique E., n'a transcrit seulement la 1ere partie du texte de la dédicace" (CRAI 1906 p. 167). Several blocks or fragments (indicated by highlighting) have been found again by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

partially published by Mendel, CRAI 1906, 167 , whence cited by Marshall, CR 20, 1906, p. 381; by Boulanger, CRAI 1914, 49, note 2, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 111, 132.

Photographs

Fragment (1978)

Representations

Boulanger notebook A, page 1: Fair copy
Boulanger notebook A, page 2: Note of divisions