Description:
Three fragments from a tabella ansata (W. 0.745 x H. 0.465) on a fluted white marble column; a (left side fragment) W. 0.30 × H. 0.30 × D. 0.14. b (centre fragment) W. 0.28 × H. 0.80 × D. 0.40. c (right lower corner) W. 0.27 × H. 0.36 × D. 0.29.
Text:
Inscribed in tabella ansata.
Letters:
0.03-0.035
Date:
Mid first century A.D. (lettering)
Findspot:
Temple/Church, section XI.
Original Location:
Findspot: on column.
Last recorded location:
a nd c in Museum; b in Temple-church, chancel.
History of discovery:
The text was copied by Deering (5v, no. 21) who saw it complete, except for the end of l.4, and l.8; It was broken by 1893, when fragment b was copied by Kubitschek (V.22a). a-c excavated by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
b published from K&R by Cormack, ABSA 59, 1964, 27, no. 37, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 156; a and c unpublished
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1Ἄτταλος Μεν-
2άνδρο̣υ τοῦ Ἀτ-
3 τ̣ά̣λο̣υ καὶττα-
4 λὶς Με̣νεκρά[τους
5 Ἄπφιον οἱ [ἱερ]εῖς
6 τῆς φροδείτης
7 θ̣εᾷ Ἀφροδείτῃ v.
8[καὶ τῷ Δήμωι] vac.
1ΑΤΤΑΛΟΣΜΕΝ
2ΑΝΔΡ·ΥΤΟΥΑΤ
3··Λ·ΥΚΑΙΑΤΤΑ
4ΛΙΣΜ·ΝΕΚΡΑ[····
5ΑΠΦΙΟΝΟΙ[···]ΕΙΣ
6ΤΗΣΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΣ
7·ΕΑΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗ 
8[············]     
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Apparatus

Letters read by us are highlighted.

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.

Photographs:

Fragment a. (1972)
 Fragment a. (1972)
Fragment b. (1977)
 Fragment b. (1977)
Fragment c. (1977)
 Fragment c. (1977)

Representations:

Complete: Deering notebook, page 5v
 Complete: Deering notebook, page 5v
Fragment b: Kubitschek notebook V, 22 (a)
 Fragment b: Kubitschek notebook V, 22 (a)

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