Description:
i: Lines 1-2 are on a large statue base capital (W. 0.55 plus moulding W. c. 0.24 x H. c. 0.43 x D. 0.625 with the upper moulding broken away, and broken below. ii: Lines 3 ff are 'on a square marble, with moulding, on ye ground' (Sherard); a white marble statue base, at least 1 m. high, of which three fragments survive. a: ll.1-4; upper edge remains, with moulding, very chipped (W. 0.10 × H. 0.22 × D. 0.30). b: ll.13-20; no edges (W. 0.105 × H. 0.255 × D. 0.19). c: ll.20-26; no edges (W. 0.10 × H. 0.28 × D. 0.15).
Text:
i. inscribed in two lines along the lower fascia. The text must have begun on a fascia of the upper moulding. ii. inscribed on one face.
Letters:
l. 1, 0.03; l. 2, 0.025; ll.3 ff., 0.02-0.025. Ligatures: ΠΠ ll.4, 10, ΤΕ l.5, ΝΕ l.14, ΤΗ l.25, ΝΗ l.26.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, nomenclature)
Findspot:
Walls, South-east: i: half buried along the south face of the south-east stretch; ii apparently in or near the south-east stretch; fragments later found b in the wall of a house, a and c during the clearing of the Theatre.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
The capital is still in situ; the base fragments are now in the Museum.
History of discovery:
ii was copied, complete, by Sherard (BM Add. 10101, 14) and Picenini (10102, 25v, and, from Tisser, 75v) in 1705. Fragment b recorded by Kubitschek and Reichel in 1893 (no notebook record); recorded by the MAMA expedition (see Cormack, Notes 10 and 56, and MAMA 8. 491). a, b and c recorded by the NYU expedition (no number, 69.318 and 69.323). i was first recorded by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Lines 3 ff. published by Boeckh from Sherard papers, CIG 2774, whence Liermann, Analecta, 53, IX, Ziebarch, Zeitschift fergl. Rechtswissenschaft 16 (1903), 291-2, nos. 60 and 63, Laum, Stiftungen 104, and by Cormack, MAMA 491 and Notes on the Inscribed Monuments 10, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 340
Text constituted from:
Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Sherard papers; publications. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
0 [?(e.g.) κατὰ τὰ ἐψηφισμένα]
0a [?ὑπὸ τῆς βουλῆς]
1 καὶ τοῦ δήμου
2 Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον Ἀρίστωνα
3 πεντάκι τοῦ ρτεμι -
4δώρου Μεν̣ίππου ἄν -
5δρα τῶν ἐν τέλει πα -
6τρὸς καὶ π̣ρογ̣όνων
7 ἀρχικῶν καὶ λιτουργῶν
8 ἔκγονον Ἀρίστωνος
9 τρὶς τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώ̣ρου
10 Μενίππου γυμνασιάρ -
11χου ζήσαντα κοσμί -
12ως καὶ αἰδημόνως
13 πρὸς ὑπόδειγμα
14 ἀρέτης ἐπαινεθέν -
15τα δὲ καὶ̣ ἐπὶ α̣ἷς ἐ -
16ποιήσατο ἀρχαῖς
17 τε καὶ λειτουργίαις
18 Αὐρηλία Ἀμμία Ζή-
19νωνος δ´ τοῦ Χρυσίπ-
20που τὸν ἑαυτ̣ῆς υἱ -
21όν ἥτις κ̣αὶ νέθη -
22κεν τῇ ἱερω τ̣ά̣ τ
23 βουλῇ εἰς α̣ἰωνίους
24 κλήρους̣ ἀργυρίου
25 ͵βτο´ καθ̣ως διὰ τῆς
28 γενομένης ὑπὸ
26 αὐτῆς ἀναθέσε -
27ως δηλοῦται
0[·······················]
0a[··············]
1ΚΑΙΤΟΥΔΗΜΟΥ
2ΜΑΡΚΟΝΑΥΡΗΛΙΟΝΑΡΙΣΤΩΝΑ
3ΠΕΝΤΑΚΙΤΟΥΑΡΤΕΜΙ
4ΔΩΡΟΥΜΕ·ΙΠΠΟΥΑΝ
5ΔΡΑΤΩΝΕΝΤΕΛΕΙΠΑ
6ΤΡΟΣΚΑΙ·ΡΟ·ΟΝΩΝ
7ΑΡΧΙΚΩΝΚΑΙΛΙΤΟΥΡΓΩΝ
8ΕΚΓΟΝΟΝΑΡΙΣΤΩΝΟΣ
9ΤΡΙΣΤΟΥΑΡΤΕΜΙΔ·ΡΟΥ
10ΜΕΝΙΠΠΟΥΓΥΜΝΑΣΙΑΡ
11ΧΟΥΖΗΣΑΝΤΑΚΟΣΜΙ
12ΩΣΚΑΙΑΙΔΗΜΟΝΩΣ
13ΠΡΟΣΥΠΟΔΕΙΓΜΑ
14ΑΡΕΤΗΣΕΠΑΙΝΕΘΕΝ
15ΤΑΔΕΚΑ·ΕΠΙ·ΙΣΕ
16ΠΟΙΗΣΑΤΟΑΡΧΑΙΣ
17ΤΕΚΑΙΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΙΑΙΣ
18ΑΥΡΗΛΙΑΑΜΜΙΑΖΗ
19ΝΩΝΟΣΔΤΟΥΧΡΥΣΙΠ
20ΠΟΥΤΟΝΕΑΥ·ΗΣΥΙ
21ΟΝΗΤΙΣ·ΑΙΑΝΕΘΗ
22ΚΕΝΤΗΙΕΡΩ··ΤΗ
23ΒΟΥΛΗΕΙΣ·ΙΩΝΙΟΥΣ
24ΚΛΗΡΟΥ·ΑΡΓΥΡΙΟΥ
25ΒΤΟΚΑ·ΩΣΔΙΑΤΗΣ
28ΓΕΝΟΜΕΝΗΣΥΠΟ
26ΑΥΤΗΣΑΝΑΘΕΣΕ
27ΩΣΔΗΛΟΥΤΑΙ
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Apparatus

The letters read by us are highlighted.

ll.4, 10:ΜΕΝΙΠΠΙΟΥ Sherard, presumably misreading a ligature (certainly in 4)

l. 5, ΕΝΕΛΕΙ, Sherard, again misreading the ligature

l. 9, ΔΟΡΟΥ Sherard, ΔΩΡΟΥ Boeckh

l. 17, ΛΕΙΤΟΥΓΙΑΙΣ Sherard; ΛΕΤΟΥΓΙΑΙΣ, whence λε[ι]του[ρ]γίαις Boeckh

l. 19, Δ Sherard; Α, whence [δ´], Boeckh

l. 22, ΙΕΡΑ Sherard

Translation:
No translation yet (2007).

Commentary:

The man honoured is presumably the brother of M. Aurelius Attalos (15.321 [=LBW 1609a])

Photographs:

i, face (1989)
 i, face (1989)
i, showing right side (1983)
 i, showing right side (1983)
ii: a (1977)
 ii: a (1977)
ii: b (1977)
 ii: b (1977)
ii: c (1977)
 ii: c (1977)

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