Tabella ansata (0.455 × 0.44) on fluted column section, which is broken above.
Description of Text
Inscribed in tabella ansata.
Letters
0.015-0.025; square sigma, two forms of omega, ΟΥ in ligature (l. 2).
Date
Early first century A.D.
(context, prosopography); this is in a very inelegant hand, on the face of it much later than the parallel column texts (1.4, 1.5); ?perhaps a re-inscription.
Eumachos Diogenes son of Athenagoras the son of Athenagoras the son of Eumachos, entitled Friend of Caesar, and Ammias Olympias, daughter of Dionysios, by birth daughter 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.
The rough hand and incompetent organisation of this text suggest that this is perhaps a copy of the other texts of these donors (1.4, 1.5 [=MAMA 437-8]), made after restoration.
Locations
Temple/Church: standing on the fourth column base from west of the north colonnadeTemple/Church, findspot. ;
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