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252. Dedication by [Flavius ]Palladius

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Description

  • Monument: Fragment of ?white marble cornice or perhaps column capital, with a face between simple upper and lower moulding, and moulding on the underside. Broken at both sides.
  • Text: Inscribed on the face.
  • Letters: Simple and curved, c. 0.04.
  • Date: First half of the fourth century (lettering, formulae).

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  [?...] Παλλάδιος v. [?...]-
  [π]οίει καὶ ἀνέθηκεν.

Translation

[?Fl(avius)] Palladius made and dedicated ?me.

Apparatus

Possibly: [Φλ(άβιος)] Παλλάδιος v. [μὲ] |[ἐπ]οίει καὶ ἀνέθηκεν.

Photographs

Face (1988)
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Representations

Transcription by Boulanger, notebook A, p. 67
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Commentary

For Palladius see discussion at II.25.

For the formula of dedication see 11 and 12, the inscriptions of the sculptor Flavius Zeno; for the phrasing suggested here as an alternative see the inscriptions of Helladius, 17 and 18, which closely resemble this in appearance.

Locations

  • Found: Hadrianic Baths: 'grande salle de l'al(eipterion)' (Boulanger); found in the chamber at the E(ast) side of the east court (NYU).
  • Original: Unknown.
  • Last Recorded: Museum.

History

  • Recording: Excavated by Boulanger, 15 October 1913 (notebook A 67, no.2, whence B 38-9, no. 2); recorded by the NYU expedition in 1988 (88.13).
  • Bibliography: Published, from Roueché's copy, by •Erim and Reynolds (1991), no.16 and plate, whence SEG 1990.939.
  • Text constituted from: Boulanger notebook; Transcription (Roueché).

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