<rs type="textType">Dedication</rs> of a <seg cert="low">caryatid</seg> by Claudia Apphia Chaeremonis.

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble statue base (0.635 × 0.625 × 0.565) with egg and dart moulding above on three sides; the left side has been hollowed out for later re-use.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face

Letters

0.046

Date

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

Edition Κλαυδία Ἀκυλείνου θυγάτηρ Ἀπφία Χαιρημονὶς ἀρχιέρεια
Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; publications

Translation

Claudia Apphia Chaeremonis, daughter of Aquilinus, high priestess dedicated this

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 Hadrianic Baths, East Court: 'Thermes, façade principale' (Gaudin)Findspot

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (89); transcribed from Reinach by Boulanger (notebook A 43, no. 6); found again in 1971 by the NYU expedition (SBI 145).

Bibliography

Published by Reinach, from Gaudin, 37, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 291.

Photographs

??? 94.70.21-24 (?NYU photos)

Transcriptions

Boulanger notebook A, 43