12.312. Posthumous honours for Attalos son of Makedon
- Description:
- White marble block with a drafted margin at top and both sides (W. 0.60 × H. 1.21 × D. 0.44);
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.02–0.0225; square sigma, cursive omega
- Date:
- Perhaps second half of the first century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Walls, East (south part): re-used just north of the South-east gate, north of 12.326, 12.325 (=MAMA 501, 451)
- Original Location:
- unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1973)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Sherard (10101, f.9) and Picenini (10102, 13v, 71); by Fellows; ?perhaps by Bailie; by Waddington; by Kubitschek and Reichel (Abklatsch 79, no notebook entry); by Gaudin; (100); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Boeckh, from Sherard (misrepresenting the line lengths) and Picenini, CIG 2781, ; by Fellows, Acct. 327-328, no. 32 whence CIG II p. 1111, whence Bailie, Fasc. ii 18-19 and 278, no. 47; by Waddington, LBW 1600 mentioned by Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 120, no. 43byCormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 479, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 245. Discussed by Reynolds, 'The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship', Steine und Wege (Vienna 1999), 327-334, Appendix C, no 2.
- Text constituted from:
- Publications; Sherard papers; Kubitschek squeeze; Gaudin squeeze. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος καὶ
- 2 ἡ γερουσία v. καὶ οἱ νέοι v.
- 3 ἐτείμησαν Ἄτταλον
- 4Μακεδόνος τοῦ Ἀριστέ-
- 5ου τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου v.
- 6Ἀπολλωνίδου διά τε
- 7 τὴν ἰδίαν ἀρετὴν καὶ v.
- 8 τὴν τῶν προγόνων διά
- 9 τε φιλοδοξιῶν καὶ ἀνα-
- 10θημάτων πρὸς τὸν δῆ - v.
- 11μον εὔνοιαν vac.
- 11a vacat
- 1ΗΒΟΥΛΗΚΑΙΟΔΗΜΟΣΚΑΙ
- 2ΗΓΕΡΟΥΣΙΑ ΚΑΙΟΙΝΕΟΙ
- 3ΕΤΕΙΜΗΣΑΝΑΤΤΑΛΟΝ
- 4ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΟΣΤΟΥΑΡΙΣΤΕ
- 5ΟΥΤΟΥΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΥ
- 6ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΔΟΥΔΙΑΤΕ
- 7ΤΗΝΙΔΙΑΝΑΡΕΤΗΝΚΑΙ
- 8ΤΗΝΤΩΝΠΡΟΓΟΝΩΝΔΙΑ
- 9ΤΕΦΙΛΟΔΟΞΙΩΝΚΑΙΑΝΑ
- 10ΘΗΜΑΤΩΝΠΡΟΣΤΟΝΔΗ
- 11ΜΟΝΕΥΝΟΙΑΝ
- 11a vacat
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ἡ
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ἡ
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ου
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Apparatus
Sherard transcribed every two lines as if they were one.
Translation:
The Council and the People and the Gerousia and the Young Men honoured Attalos son of Makedon son of Aristeas son of Alexandros ?Apollonidas for his own virtue and that of his ancestors, and the goodwill to the people shown through his public services and dedications.
Commentary:
See Reynolds, 'The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship', Steine und Wege (Vienna 1999), 327-334.
Photographs:
- Face (1973)
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- Face (1973)
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