12.520. Honours for [Tiber]ius Claudius Attalos
- Description:
- White marble statue base without moulding (W. 0.575 × H. 1.325 × D. 0.51) which is damaged at the upper left corner and along the top edge.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face. The text will have begun on an upper feature.
- Letters:
- 0.03-0.04; ligatures: ΤΗΝ, l. 9.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering and prosopography).
- Findspot:
- Walls, South-east: fallen from the south wall, south-west of the East Gate, a little west of 12.525
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1973)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Wood (14, p. 46); by Deering (f. 5v, no. 23); by Fellows; by Loew; by Bailie, (Researches 43-4); by Waddington; by K&R (RI.17v, mention); by Gaudin; by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
- Bibliography:
- Published by Fellows, Acct. 327-328, no. 37, whence CIG 2781b (p. 1111); from Deering by Leake, TRSL 1843, 236 and 292 no. 9; from his own copy by Bailie, 59; mentioned, from Loew, by Franz, a.3; by Waddington, LBW 1596; mentioned, from Gaudin's squeeze, by Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 120, no. 44; from the MAMA records, by Cormack, MAMA 8, no. 502 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 293.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds); publications; Deering; Gaudin's squeeze. This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 0[(e.g.) ἡ βούλη καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησεν]
- 1 [Τιβέρ]ιον Κλαύδιον
- 2Λουκίου Ἀντωνίου
- 3Κλαυδίου Δομετε[ί]-
- 4νου Διογένους Ἀσ-
- 5[ί]ας ἀρχιερέως καὶ
- 6νομοθέτου υἱὸν
- 7Ἄτταλον συνκλη-
- 8τικὸν τὸν εὐεργέ-
- 9την τῆς πατρίδος
- 9a vacat
- 0[··································]
- 1[·····]ΙΟΝΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΝ
- 2Λ[·····ΚΙΟΥΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΥ
- 3ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥΔΟΜΕΤΕ[·]
- 4ΝΟΥΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣΑΣ
- 5[·][·]ΣΑΡΧΙΕΡΕΩΣΚΑΙ
- 6ΝΟΜΟΘΕΤΟΥΥΙΟΝ
- 7ΑΤΤΑΛΟΝΣΥΝΚΛΗ
- 8ΤΙΚΟΝΤΟΝΕΥΕΡΓΕ
- 9ΤΗΝΤΗΣΠΑΤΡΙΔΟΣ
- 9a vacat
Apparatus
The stone may have deteriorated since it was first copied, especially in ll.1-5; see commentary.
l.1, ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝ Wood, Fellows, Bailie, accepted by MAMA; ΛΟΥΚΙΟΝ Deering, accepted by Waddington, Reinach. Waddington, and later copyists, could only read ION, and Reichel read nothing; but it is possible that damage was done to l. 1 much earlier.
l.2, ΛΟΥΚΙΟΥ Deering, Wood; Λ[Ο]ΥΚΙΟΥ Fellows, Waddington; Λ[ΟΥ]ΚΙΟΥ MAMA; Λ[ΟΥ]ΚΙΟΥ NYU
l.3, ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ was read in full by MAMA and previous copyists; Κ̣ΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ NYU
ll.4/5, ΑΣΙ|ΑΣ Wood; ΑΣ|[··]Σ Deering, Fellows, NYU; ΑΣΙ|[··]Σ Waddington; ΑΣ|ΙΑΣ MAMA
Translation:
[?Public bodies honoured] ?Tiberius Claudius Attalos, son of Lucius Antonius Claudius Dometinos Diogenes, highpriest of Asia and lawgiver; senatorial and benefactor of his homeland.
Commentary:
In our judgement, the first word of line one was probably ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝ, as reported by Wood, Fellows, Bailie (who did see this stone, although he made several mistakes in transcription), and (by implication) Loew (since Franz did not note that his reading differed from that of Fellows) and accepted by Cormack. ΛΟΥΚΙΟΝ figures in the copy made by the normally reliable Deering, and was accepted by Waddington and Reinach as being the lectio difficilior. Both could be fitted into the space available, since although ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝ is longer, it contains narrow letters. If we accept that when first seen the letters were already in poor condition (as is likely) both readings would be explicable mistakes: ΛΟΥΚΙΟΝ would be a reading influenced by the first word of l.2, ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝ by the nomen Claudius which follows. The existence of an Aphrodisian senator named Tiberius Claudius Attalos at approximately the right date (2.16) may seem to tip the balance, but is not absolutely conclusive.
Photographs:
- Face (1973)
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Representations:
- Deering notebook 5v
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- Wood notebook 14, page 46
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