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, with egg and dart moulding above three fasciae, now broken into two fragments.

Description of Text

Inscribed on all three fasciae, two lines on the upper fascia and one each on the lower two.

Letters

Regular hand, without the variations in size of the matching inscription, 5.207 (=168a); 0.025; ligatures: in l.3, second ΗΝ, ΚΕ.

Date

A.D. 117-138 (reign)

Edition θεᾷ Ἀφρο δείτῃ καὶ Αὐ τοκρά τορι Καίσαρι θεοῦ Τραϊανοῦ υἱῷ θεοῦ Νέρβα υἱωνῷ Τ ραϊαν ῷ Ἁδριανῷ Σεβαστῷ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ Περ είτας Ζήνωνος τοῦ Ζήνωνος Ἄτταλος το περιφλίωμα ἀνέθηκε ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων
Apparatus

Letters highlighted were recorded by Boulanger, but not subsequently.

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 south-east doorway (5.207 = Mendel, 168a) with differences in layout and a different hand.

Locations

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

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcriptions (Drew-Bear, 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, 168 note 1b, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 113 .

Photographs

Right hand fragment (1985)
Right hand fragment, left end (1985)
Right hand fragment, centre (1985)
Right hand fragment, right end (1985)
Left hand fragment (1985)

Representations

Boulanger notebook A, page 3: Fair copy