1.5. Column dedication by Eumachos and Ammias

Description:
White marble tabella ansata (W. 0.71 × H. 0.44) cut on fluted column.
Text:
Cut on the second drum from the base of the column.
Letters:
0.025-0.0275
Date:
Early first century A.D. (lettering, context, prosopography)
Findspot:
Temple/Church: 9th column from west end of north colonnade
Original Location:
Findspot
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Copied by Sherard in 1705 (10101, 12r) and by Picenini (10102, 20); copied by Deering (2v, no.10); copied by Fellows; copied by Le Bas, and perhaps the same inscription copied by Waddington; Recorded by Gaudin (88); recorded by the MAMA expedition; recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published by Boeckh, from Sherard, CIG 2748 ; published by Fellows, 13, whence CIG add. p. 1109, and from all these Texier 1. Published by Waddington from Le Bas, LBW 591, and from his own copy, LBW 1587 . Published by Reinach from Gaudin, 124 ; published by Cormackfrom the MAMA records, 438 , whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 109.
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin's squeeze; publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
1Εὔμαχος Ἀθηνα-
2γόρου τοῦ Ἀθηναγό-
3ρου τοῦ Εὐμάχου Δι-
4ογένης Φιλόκαισαρ
5 καὶ Ἀμμιὰς Διονυσί-
6ου φύσι δὲ Ἀδράστου
7 τοῦ Μόλωνος Ὀλυν-
8πιὰς τὸν κίονα θεᾷ
9Ἀφροδίτῃ καὶ τῷ
10 vac. Δήμῳ vac.
1ΕΥΜΑΧΟΣΑΘΗΝΑ
2ΓΟΡΟΥΤΟΥΑΘΗΝΑΓΟ
3ΡΟΥΤΟΥΕΥΜΑΧΟΥΔΙ
4ΟΓΕΝΗΣΦΙΛΟΚΑΙΣΑΡ
5ΚΑΙΑΜΜΙΑΣΔΙΟΝΥΣΙ
6ΟΥΦΥΣΙΔΕΑΔΡΑΣΤΟΥ
7ΤΟΥΜΟΛΩΝΟΣΟΛΥΝ
8ΠΙΑΣΤΟΝΚΙΟΝΑΘΕΑ
9ΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΚΑΙΤΩ
10   ΔΗΜΩ   
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Εὔμαχος
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γόρου
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Ἀθηναγό
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ρου
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Εὐμάχου
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ογένης
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καὶ
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ου
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τοῦ
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Translation:

Eumachus Diogenes son of Athenagoras the son of Athenagoras the son of Eumachus, (entitled) Friend of Caesar, and Ammias Olympias, daughter of Dionysius, by birth daughter of Adrastus 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.

Photographs:

Text (1973)
 Text (1973)
Text (2005)
 Text (2005)
Text (2005)
 Text (2005)
Column (1976)
 Column (1976)
Column (1976)
 Column (1976)

Representations:

Deering page 2v
 Deering page 2v

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