<rs type="textType" reg="statue dedication">Dedication</rs> of a <seg cert="low">caryatid</seg> by Julia Paula, with <rs type="textType">sculptor's signature</rs>

Joyce M. Reynolds1991

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Originally published in Erim and Reynolds (1991).

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Description of Monument

White marble statue base with egg and dart moulding on three sides (0.645 × 0.75 × 0.59).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face (i) and on the right side (ii)

Letters

0.05

Date

Mid second century A.D. (lettering, monument group, prosopography).

Edition
Ἰουλία Γαίου Ἀπολλοδότου θυγάτηρ Παῦλα ἀρχιέρεια ἀνθηφόρος
Ἀνδρόνεικος ἐποίει
Translation

i. Julia Paula, daughter of Gaius Apollodotos, high priestess, flower-bearer dedicated this.

ii. Andronikos made the statue

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

Hadrianic Baths, East court: Caryatid portico Found: Hadrianic Baths: 'Thermes, façade' ; Last known location: Findspot

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; publications.

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (115); transcribed from Reinach by Boulanger (notebook A, 45 no.7); recorded by the NYU expedition (SBI 168).

Bibliography

Published from Gaudin by Reinach, 69, whence Squarciapino no. 2, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 280. Published by Erim and Reynolds, Sculptors, no. 3, whence SEG 1990.926.

Photographs

Face i (1969)
Face i (1973)
Face i (1973)

JMR 2.40