<rs type="textType" reg="statue dedication">Dedication</rs> of a <seg cert="low">caryatid</seg> by Gaia Tatia Chresteina

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

A rectangular white marble statue base: 'largeur, 0.61', with moulding above on at least three sides.

Description of Text

Lines 1 and 2 inscribed on the two fasciae of the upper moulding, 3 ff. on the face.

Letters

No description

Date

Second half of second century A.D. (monument group, prosopography).

Edition Γαΐα Τατία Χρησστεῖναἀρχιέρεια θυγάτηρ πόλεως τῇ Πατρίδι
Translation

Gaia Tatia Chrestina, high priestess, daughter of the city, to her homeland

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). .

Locations

Found: Hadrianic Baths, East Court: 'En avant de la 5e colonne portique O(uest), n(ord)' (Boulanger) ; Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East court: ?Caryatid portico ; Last known location: East Court (2002)

Text Constituted From

Notebooks.

History of Recording

Excavated by Boulanger, 27 October 1913 (notebook A, 77 no. 19 whence B.34-5, no. 19); found by the NYU expedition in 2002.

Bibliography

published, from Boulanger, Robert, Laodicée du Lycos, 317-318, note 8, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 166.

Photographs

Face (2002)
Face (2002)
Top (2002)

Representations

Boulanger A 77
Boulanger B 34
Boulanger B 35