1.7. Column dedication by Attalos and Attalis
- Description:
- Tabella ansata (W. 0.745 × H. 0.465) on a fluted white marble column of the Temple.
- Text:
- Inscribed in tabella ansata.
- Letters:
- 0.025-0.03
- Date:
- Early first century A.D. (lettering, context, prosopography)
- Findspot:
- Temple/Church: on a column fallen from the north colonnade
- Original Location:
- Temple/Church: on column.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Copied by Deering (1); copied by Le Bas; recorded by Gaudin (76); recorded by the MAMA expedition; recorded by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Leake, from Deering, 1, whence Bailie 69; published by Waddington, LBW 589; published by Reinach, from Gaudin, 125; published by Cormackfrom the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 450 , whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 101.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1Ἄτταλος Με-
- 2νάνδρου τοῦ
- 3Ἀττάλου καὶ
- 4Ἀτταλὶς Μενεκρά-
- 5τους Ἄπφιον οἱ ἱε-
- 6ρεῖς τῆς Ἀφροδεί-
- 7της θεᾷ Ἀφροδεί-
- 8τῃ καὶ τῷ Δήμωι
- 1ΑΤΤΑΛΟΣΜΕ
- 2ΝΑΝΔΡΟΥΤΟΥ
- 3ΑΤΤΑΛΟΥΚΑΙ
- 4ΑΤΤΑΛΙΣΜΕΝΕΚΡΑ
- 5ΤΟΥΣΑΠΦΙΟΝΟΙΙΕ
- 6ΡΕΙΣΤΗΣΑΦΡΟΔΕΙ
- 7ΤΗΣΘΕΑΑΦΡΟΔΕΙ
- 8ΤΗΚΑΙΤΩΔΗΜΩΙ
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Ἄτταλος
Με
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νάνδρου
τοῦ
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Ἀττάλου
καὶ
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Ἀτταλὶς
Μενεκρά
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τους
Ἄπφιον
οἱ
ἱε
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ρεῖς
τῆς
Ἀφροδεί
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της
θεᾷ
Ἀφροδεί
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τῃ
καὶ
τῷ
Δήμωι
Translation:
Attalos son of Menandros the son of Attalos, and Attalis Apphion daughter of Menekrates, priests of Aphrodite, for the goddess Aphrodite and the People
Commentary:
One of the group of column dedications from the Temple of Aphrodite: 1.4 (=MAMA 437), 1.5 (=MAMA 438), 1.6 (=Reinach 122), 1.7 (=MAMA 450), 1.8 (=KRC 37+); see discussed by Reynolds, 'Inscriptions and the Building of the Temple', Aphrodisias Papers (Ann Arbor, 1990), 37-40, 38.
On the donors see also Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 319-20.
Photographs:
- Face (1978)
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- Face (1978)
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Representations:
- Deering notebook, 1
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