<rs type="textType">Column <rs type="textType">dedication</rs></rs> to Demos by Menippos Kodios and Papianos Kodios

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble column bases, inscribed on a square face; i. (0.59 × 0.09) is chipped along the upper and lower edges and broken away to the right; ii. no measurements.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the square face of each base.

Letters

0.02-0.022.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition
Μένιππος καὶ Παπιανὸς τοῦ Ἀθηναγόρου τοῦ Μενίππου Κόδιοι τοὺς τέσσαρας κείονας σὺν ταῖς σπείραις καὶ ταῖς κεφαλεῖσιν τῷ Δήμῳ ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ἀνέθηκαν
Μένιππος καὶ Παπιανὸς τοῦ Ἀθηναγόρου τοῦ Μενίππου Κόδιοι τοὺς τέσσαρας κείονας σὺν ταῖς σπείραις καὶ ταῖς κε φαλεῖσιν τῷ Δήμῳ ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ἀνέθηκαν
Apparatus

i. the text highlighted was read by Boulanger and /or Jacopi but not by us

i. l. 2, κοδροι, Boulanger

Translation

Menippos Kodios and Papianos Kodios, sons of Athenagoras the son of Menippos dedicated the four columns with their tori and capitals to the Demos from their own funds.

Commentary

One of the column base dedications from the west portico of the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths. From north section: 5.206 (=MiItal 8 i and ii), 5.201 (=Haussoullier 1), 1119 (=Boulanger A 73, no.11); from the south section 1115 (=Boulanger B, 21 no.28).

Speira is a standard term for the rounded moulding (torus) in the base of an Ionic or Corinthian column: IG I2 372.64; Sardis 7(1) no 181, Poll. 7.121, Vitruvius 3.5.3., 5.202 (=Museum 154), 1120 (=Museum 158); cf also 1118 (=68.272).

Locations

Hadrianic Baths, East Court, in the north section of the west portico. i on the base of third column, ii on the base of the second column, east face. Hadrianic Baths, East Court: in the north section of the west portico. i on the base of third column, ii on the base of the second column, east face. ; Last known location: Findspot (1973)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); publications.

History of Recording

i and ii excavated by the French in 1913 (i: 22 October: Boulanger notebook A, 74 no 16, whence B 21, no. 25; ii: 20 October: Boulanger notebook A, 74 no 13, notebook B 21, no. 27); i recorded by the Italian Mission in 1937, and by the NYU expedition in 1973.

Bibliography

i published by Jacopi, MonAnt 38, 1939, 227, no. 8, whence BE 1948.211, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 91

Photographs

i. Text (1973)

Representations

Boulanger notebook A, page 74
Boulanger notebook B, page 21