Description of Monument

White marble statue base without moulding (0.43 × 1.10 × 0.40)

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face, whose edges are slightly recessed.

Letters

0.015-0.0175; l. 6, 0.025-0.0375

Date

First to second centuries A.D. (prosopography, lettering)

Edition Ἀφροδείτῃ καὶ θεοῖς Σεβαστοῖς καὶ τῷ Δήμῳ Ἀρτεμίδωρος Διονυσίου φύσει δὲ Ἀρτεμιδώρου τοῦ Διογένους Πηδισαςἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ἀνέθηκε τὸν Ἑρμῆ καὶ τὴν ἐπίχρυσον Ἀφροδείτην καὶ τοὺς παρ' ἑκάτερα Ἔρωτας λαμπαδηφόρους καὶ τὸν πρὸ αὐτοῦ Ἔρωτα μαρμάρινον καθὼς ὑπέσχετο καὶ αὐτὸς κατασκευαζομένου τοῦ φοινεικοῦντος ἐν τῷ τῆς στρατηγίας αὐτοῦ χρόνῳ

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin; publications.

Translation

For Aphrodite and for the gods the Augusti and for the People, Artemidoros Pedisas son of Dionysios, by birth of Artemidoros the son of Diogenes. at his own expense set up the Hermes, and the gilded Aphrodite, and the Erotes carrying torches on either side, and the marble Eros in front of it, as he also promised when the palm grove was being constructed in the period of his tenure of the office of strategos.

Commentary

For a another dedication of Erotes, cf 15.202.

Locations

Unknown Walls, East (north part): reused in a bastion, east of the north-east gate, north of 12.211 (=MAMA 538).Findspot (1975)

History of Recording

Recorded by Paris and Holleaux; by K&R (not in notebooks); by Gaudin (63); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Paris & Holleaux, 8; cited by Reinach, from Gaudin, 22; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, 8. 448, whence 13, 118, McCabe 149.

Photographs

MAMA?[There are photos - where?]]