<rs type="textType">Dedication </rs> of a <seg cert="low">caryatid</seg> by Attalis

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble statue base (0.53-0.61 × 0.66 × 0.535) with egg and dart moulding above, and with a hole in the top for the attachment of the statue.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face

Letters

0.05-0.055; l. 1, ΜΗ in ligature; guidelines visible.

Date

Mid second century A.D. (lettering, monument group, prosopography).

Edition Ἀτταλὶς Μηνοδότου τοῦ Νεικομάχου ἀρχιερέ ως ἱέρεια Ἀρετῆς τῷ Δήμῳ
Apparatus

l. 5, Σ cut over Ε

l. 6, Σ cut over Ε, but the upright has been partially erased

Translation

Attalis daugher of Menodotos the son of Nikomachos, high priest, priestess of Arete, to the People.

Commentary

One of the series of dedications from the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths:5.209, 5.7, 5.210, 5.211, 5.212, 5.213, 5.8, and others, currently in preparation for publication by Joyce Reynolds; all are by women, and apparently bore caryatids (see 5.212). For the priesthood of Arete, see Reynolds, Ruler-cult, 43, and 11.212.

Locations

Hadrianic Baths, East court: Caryatid portico Found: Portico of Tiberius: west stoa ; Last known location: Museum

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publication

History of Recording

Excavated by the Italian expedition; found again by the NYU expedition (SBI 75).

Bibliography

published by Jacopi, MonAL 38, 1939, 225, no. 6, whence BullEp 1948.211, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 162.

Photographs

Face (1991)

KTE 69.1.9