12.305. Dedication by M. Iulius Attalos, imperial freedman, to Aphrodite, the imperial house, and the Senate and People of Rome.

Description:
Large white marble block broken away at the right side, originally with moulding on all three surviving faces (W. c. 1.52 x H. 0.99 x D. 0.54).
Text:
inscribed on the reverse face
Letters:
c. 0.04
Date:
First century A.D. (lettering, content)
Findspot:
Walls, East (south part): re-used on the inner face of the eastern stretch, north of the East Gate, near IAph 12.301, 12.318.
Original Location:
unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1978 (Walls 108)
Bibliography:
Published by Reynolds, PCPS 206, 1980, 73-74, no. 2, whence SEG 1980.1253, BullEp 1982.355, AnnEpig 1980, 867; republished by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 54, whence SEG 1982.1097, BullEp 1983.391, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 150 .
Text constituted from:
transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (1982).
1 Θειότητι Αὐτοκρατόρων Θεᾷ Ἀφροδίτῃ γενε̣[τείρᾳ]
2 Συνκλήτῳ Δήμῳ Ῥωμαίων πολείταις εὐχαρισ[τῶν]
3 Μᾶρκος Ἰούλιος Ἄτταλος ἀπελεύθερος Καίσα[ρος]
1ΘΕΙΟΤΗΤΙΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΩΝΘΕΑΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΓΕΝ·[·····]
2ΣΥΝΚΛΗΤΩΔΗΜΩΡΩΜΑΙΩΝΠΟΛΕΙΤΑΙΣΕΥΧΑΡΙΣ[···]
3ΜΑΡΚΟΣΙΟΥΛΙΟΣΑΤΤΑΛΟΣΑΠΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΟΣΚΑΙΣΑ[···]
<ab>
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Θειότητι
Αὐτοκρατόρων
Θεᾷ
Ἀφροδίτῃ
γεν
<unclear reason="damage" >
ε
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" >
τείρᾳ
</supplied>
<lb n="2" />
Συνκλήτῳ
Δήμῳ
Ῥωμαίων
πολείταις
εὐχαρισ
<supplied reason="lost" >
τῶν
</supplied>
<lb n="3" />
Μᾶρκος
Ἰούλιος
Ἄτταλος
ἀπελεύθερος
Καίσα
<supplied reason="lost" >
ρος
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

For the divinity of the Imperatores, for goddess Aphrodite Genetrix, for the Senate and People of Rome, for the citizens, in gratitude Marcus Julius Attalos, freedman of Caesar.

Commentary:

See Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome, 182,‘Further information’, 111-2, and ‘Ruler-cult’, 50.

Photographs:

Face (1981)
 Face (1981)

Representations:

Squeeze (1978)
 Squeeze (1978)

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