1.6. Column dedication by Eumachos and Amias
- Description:
- Tabella ansata (W. 0.455 × H. 0.44) on fluted column section, which is broken above.
- 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.
- Findspot:
- Temple/Church: standing on the fourth column base from west of the north colonnade
- Original Location:
- Temple/Church, findspot.
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Kubitschek (V, 22; Abklatsch 112); by Gaudin (51); found by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published from Gaudin by Reinach, 122, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 87.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications, notebooks. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1Εὔμαχος Ἀθηναγό-
- 2ρου τοῦ Ἀθηναγόρου
- 3 τοῦ Εὐμάχου Διογε-
- 4{γέ}νης Φιλόκαισαρ καὶ
- 5(sic) Ἀμιὰς Διονυσίου φύσι
- 6 δὲ Ἀδράστου τοῦ Μό-
- 7λω<ν>ος Ὀλυ<ν>πιὰς τὸν κί-
- 8ονα θεᾷ Ἀφροδίτῃ {τὸν}
- 9{κίονα} καὶ τῷ Δήμῳ
- 1ΕΥΜΑΧΟΣΑΘΗΝΑΓΟ
- 2ΡΟΥΤΟΥΑΘΗΝΑΓΟΡΟΥ
- 3ΤΟΥΕΥΜΑΧΟΥΔΙΟΓΕ
- 4ΓΕΝΗΣΦΙΛΟΚΑΙΣΑΡΚΑΙ
- 5(sic)ΑΜΙΑΣΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥΦΥΣΙ
- 6ΔΕΑΔΡΑΣΤΟΥΤΟΥΜΟ
- 7ΛΩΟΣΟΛΥΠΙΑΣΤΟΝΚΙ
- 8ΟΝΑΘΕΑΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΤΟΝ
- 9ΚΙΟΝΑΚΑΙΤΩΔΗΜΩ
Apparatus
l. 1, [Εὔ]μαχος Reinach
l. 6-7, τοῦ [Μό]|λωνος Reinach
Translation:
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.
Photographs:
- Face (1973)
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- Face (1976)
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Representations:
- Kubitschek notebook V, 22
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