Eumachos Diogenes son of Athenagoras the son of Athenagoras the son of Eumachos, (entitled) Friend of Caesar, and Amias Olympias, daughter of Dionysios, by birth of Adrastos, the son of Molon (dedicated) the column 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+); discussed by Reynolds, 'Inscriptions and the Building of the Temple', Aphrodisias Papers (Ann Arbor, 1990), 37-40, 38; see also Reynolds, 'The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship', Steine und Wege (Vienna, 1999), 327-334, 334, C.1.
Locations
Temple/Church findspot.Temple/Church: 7th column from west end of north colonnade; Findspot
History of Recording
Noted in 1705 by Picenini (10102, 20) and Sherard (10101, 12); copied by Deering (8, no.33); copied by Bailie; copied by Le Bas; recorded by K&R (no notebook entry); recorded by Gaudin (181); recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography
Published by Bailie, 68; by Waddington, from Le Bas, LBW 590; by Reinach, from Gaudin, 123; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, 437, whence McCabePHI Aphrodisias108.