Building <rs type="textType">dedication</rs> to Aphrodite and Hadrian by Pereitas Attalos

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble lintel block, slightly damaged at right end (2.16), with egg and dart moulding above three fasciae.

Description of Text

Inscribed in one line on all three fasciae (heights 0.09, 0.08, 0.06)

Letters

Striking hand, with omicron and theta half the size of the upright letters; l.1, 0.055; ll.2, 3, 0.04.

Date

A.D. 117-138 (reign)

Edition θεᾷ Ἀφροδείτῃ καὶ Αὐτοκράτορι Καίσαρι θεοῦ Τραϊανοῦ υἱῷ θεοῦ Νέρβα υἱωνῷ Τραϊανῷ Ἁδριανῷ Σεβαστῷκαὶ τῷ δήμῳ Περείτας Ζήνωνος τοῦ Ζήνωνος Ἄτταλος τὸ περιφλίωμα ἐκκ τῶν ἰδίων ἀνέθηκεν

Apparatus

The cutter had to avoid a hole in l. 3.

Translation

To the goddess Aphrodite, to the Imperator Hadrian Augustus son of the god Trajan, grandson of the god Nerva, to the People: Pereitas Attalos son of Zenon the son of Zenon dedicated the decoration of the doorway at his own expense.

Commentary

The same text was inscribed on the north-east doorway (5.208 =Mendel, 168b) with differences in layout and a different hand.

Locations

Hadrianic Baths, East Court: Fallen at the south doorway of the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths, connecting the Galerie de l'Est with the south portico of the court. Hadrianic Baths, East Court: over the door. Findspot

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); notebook.

History of Recording

Excavated by Mendel in 1905; copied by Boulanger (notebook A, p.3); recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Mendel, CRAI 1906, 168a note 1, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 112 ; mentioned by Wilhelm, Jahreshefte 1933, 55-61, 56.

Photographs

Face (1973)

Representations

Boulanger notebook A, page 3