<rs type="textType">Column dedication</rs> to Demos

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Description of Monument

Fragment, broken at both sides, of a simple white marble moulding or column base (0.21 × 0.135 × 0.175) with one simple fascia

Description of Text

Inscribed in two lines on the fascia.

Letters

0.028

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition τὸν κειονα σῦν τἀνέθηκεν τῷ Δήμῳ

Apparatus

Letters highlighted were seen by Boulanger but not by us

Translation

. . . ] the column with [ . . .] dedicated to the People [ . . .

Commentary

One of the column base dedications from west portico of the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths. From north section: 5.206 (MiItal 8 i and ii), 5.201 (=Haussoullier1), 1119 (=Boulanger A 73, no.11); from the south section 1115 (=Boulanger B, 21 no.28), ?5.202 (=Museum 154), ?1120 (=Museum 158); cf also 1118 (=68.272)

Locations

Hadrianic Baths, East Court Found: Hadrianic Baths, East Court: ; ' Portique O(uest), s(ud). 2e entrée à p(art) du N(ord)' (notebook A); Boulanger conjectured that it might be from the third base in the south section of the west portico (notebook B) ; Last known location: Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); publications.

History of Recording

Found by Boulanger, 5 November 1913 (notebook A 78, 25, whence B.21, 28, C5, 6). Found by the NYU expedition among the old museum holdings, with an early museum inventory number (Museum 154).

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Surviving part (1983)

Representations

Boulanger A, 78

Boulanger B, 21