Description:
Large white marble block from a circular feature, designed to be seen from both sides, with an outset area (W. 0.32 × H. 0.72) at one end.
Text:
Roughly inscribed on the outset area.
Letters:
Very rough; l.1, 0.03; l.2, 0.04; l.3, 0.02; cursive sigma and alpha.
Date:
Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).
Findspot:
Walls, South (east part): in the stretch of the southern city wall excavated in 1976.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Findspot (1976)
History of discovery:
Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1976 (Walls 148).
Bibliography:
Unpublished.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
1Διοδ̣[·· ? ··]
2 Ἄτταλος
3Ἰσαγό̣[?ρας]
1ΔΙΟ·[ - - - ]
2ΑΤΤΑΛΟΣ
3ΙΣΑΓ·[···]
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Διο
<unclear reason="damage" >
δ
</unclear>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" dim="right" />
<lb n="2" />
Ἄτταλος
<lb n="3" />
Ἰσαγ
<unclear reason="damage" >
</unclear>
<supplied reason="lost" cert="low" >
ρας
</supplied>
</ab>

Translation:

Perhaps three names in the nominative: Diod[oros] or Diod[otos], [...] Attalos. [...] Isago[ras?] [...]

Commentary:

The first name might be Diodoros or perhaps Diodotos; the case might have been nominative or genitive. But it might be in the genitive case, indicating the father of a man whose name preceded, and Isagoras might have been father of Attalos.

The purpose of the text is unkown.

Photographs:
none.

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