1.8. Column dedication by Attalos and Attalis
- Description:
- Three fragments from a tabella ansata (W. 0.745 x H. 0.465) on a fluted white marble column; a (left side fragment) W. 0.30 × H. 0.30 × D. 0.14. b (centre fragment) W. 0.28 × H. 0.80 × D. 0.40. c (right lower corner) W. 0.27 × H. 0.36 × D. 0.29.
- Text:
- Inscribed in tabella ansata.
- Letters:
- 0.03-0.035
- Date:
- Mid first century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Temple/Church, section XI.
- Original Location:
- Findspot: on column.
- Last recorded location:
- a nd c in Museum; b in Temple-church, chancel.
- History of discovery:
- The text was copied by Deering (5v, no. 21) who saw it complete, except for the end of l.4, and l.8; It was broken by 1893, when fragment b was copied by Kubitschek (V.22a). a-c excavated by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- b published from K&R by Cormack, ABSA 59, 1964, 27, no. 37, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 156; a and c unpublished
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1Ἄτταλος Μεν-
- 2άνδρο̣υ τοῦ Ἀτ-
- 3 τ̣ά̣λο̣υ καὶ Ἀττα-
- 4 λὶς Με̣νεκρά[τους
- 5 Ἄπφιον οἱ [ἱερ]εῖς
- 6 τῆς Ἀφροδείτης
- 7 θ̣εᾷ Ἀφροδείτῃ v.
- 8[καὶ τῷ Δήμωι] vac.
- 1ΑΤΤΑΛΟΣΜΕΝ
- 2ΑΝΔΡ·ΥΤΟΥΑΤ
- 3··Λ·ΥΚΑΙΑΤΤΑ
- 4ΛΙΣΜ·ΝΕΚΡΑ[····
- 5ΑΠΦΙΟΝΟΙ[···]ΕΙΣ
- 6ΤΗΣΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΣ
- 7·ΕΑΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗ
- 8[············]
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Apparatus
Letters read by us are highlighted.
Translation:
Attalos son of Menandros the son of Attalos, and Attalis Apphion daughter of Menekrates, priests of Aphrodite, 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+); see discussed by Reynolds, 'Inscriptions and the Building of the Temple', Aphrodisias Papers (Ann Arbor, 1990), 37-40, 38.
Photographs:
- Fragment a. (1972)
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- Fragment b. (1977)
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- Fragment c. (1977)
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Representations:
- Complete: Deering notebook, page 5v
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- Fragment b: Kubitschek notebook V, 22 (a)
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