2.16. Honours for Attalos and Diogenes, brothers

Description:: Two matching white marble bases, with moulding at top and bottom; a: complete (W. 0.625 × H. 0.90 × D. 0.615).
Text:: Inscribed on the face (W. 0.48 × H. 0.52) which is broken above and at left side. b: Four adjoining fragments, inscribed on the face.
Letters:: Severan; 0.04-0.045
Date:: Severan (lettering)
Findspot:: Bouleuterion/Odeon: concluding the end balustrades at either side of the cavea: a to the east and b to the west.
Original Location:: Findspot
Last recorded location:: a in situ, b in Museum (1978)
History of discovery:: Excavated by the NYU expedition (a. Odeon 18, b. Odeon 19)
Bibliography:: Unpublished.
Text constituted from:: Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).

a: 0 [Τιβ(έριος) Κλαύ]; 1[δ]ι̣ο̣ς̣ Ἄττα-; 2λ̣ο̣ς̣ συνκλη-; 3 v. τικός v.
b: [?Τιβ(έριος) Κλαύδιος]; 1Ἄττα[λ]ος̣; 2 Διογένην; 3 τὸν ἀ̣δ̣ε[λ]-; 4 v. φόν v.

a: 0[············]; 1[·]···ΑΤΤΑ; 2···ΣΥΝΚΛΗ; 3 ΤΙΚΟΣ
b: [················]; 1ΑΤΤΑ[·]Ο·; 2ΔΙΟΓΕΝΗΝ; 3ΤΟΝ··Ε[·]; 4 ΦΟΝ

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Τιβ

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έριος

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Κλαύ

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ιος

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Ἄττα

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συνκλη

τικός

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Τιβ

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έριος

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Κλαύδιος

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Ἄττα

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Διογένην

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φόν

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Apparatus

a: In lines 1-2 a nomen preceding Ἄτταλος seems likely, and Κλαύδιος is certain in view of the prosopography; the praenomen, if given, was probably Τιβέριος (see 12.520). If there was more text before line 1 it must have been cut on the lost moulding or on a plinth placed above that.

b: Line 1 was probably preceded by the nomen and perhaps by the praenomen of Attalos, cut on the lost moulding: undoubtedly Claudius, (see below) with perhaps the praenomen Tiberius.

Translation:

a: [Tiberius Claud]ius Attalos, senator.

b: [Tib(erius) Claudius] Attalos (erected the statue of) Diogenes, his brother

Commentary:

There is some parallel to these texts in the two published as 12.530 (CIG 2805); in them an Attalos claims to have set up a statue of his brother Diogenes, and a Diogenes one of his brother Attalos This is surely the same pair of brothers as here, but possibly at a rather earlier date, since they make no reference to senatorial status (although there was apparently none in text b here). For further information about the brothers see PIR2 796, 851, and nos. 2.17, 2.13, both of which are Severan in date. Since only one brother figures as senatorial in these texts (and one would expect the title to appear in the surviving part of no. 2 if Diogenes was entitled to it), these should be earlier, perhaps even late Commodan.