Description of Monument

White marble tabella ansata (0.71 × 0.42) cut on fluted column.

Description of Text

Cut on the second drum from the base of the column.

Letters

0.02-0.03

Date

Early first century A.D. (lettering, context, prosopography)

Edition Εὔμαχος Ἀθηναγόρου τοῦ Ἀθηναγόρου τοῦ Εὐμάχου Διογένης Φιλόκαισαρ καὶ Ἀμιὰς Διονυσίου φύσι δὲ Ἀδράστου τοῦ Μόλωνος Ὀλυνπιὰς τὸν κίονα θεᾷ Ἀφροδίτῃ καὶ τῷ Δήμῳ

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications; Gaudin's squeeze

Translation

Eumachos Diogenes son of Athenagoras the son of Athenagoras the son of Eumachos, (entitled) Friend of Caesar, and Amias Olympias, daughter of Dionysios, by birth of Adrastos, the son of Molon (dedicated) the column for the goddess Aphrodite and the People.

Commentary

One of the group of column dedications from the Temple of Aphrodite: 1.4 (=MAMA 437), 1.5 (=MAMA 438), 1.6 (=Reinach 122), 1.7 (=MAMA 450), 1.8 (=KRC 37+); discussed by Reynolds, 'Inscriptions and the Building of the Temple', (Ann Arbor, 1990), 37-40, 38; see also Reynolds, 'The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship', (Vienna, 1999), 327-334, 334, C.1.

Locations

Temple/Church findspot. Temple/Church: 7th column from west end of north colonnade; Findspot

History of Recording

Noted in 1705 by Picenini (10102, 20) and Sherard (10101, 12); copied by Deering (8, no.33); copied by Bailie; copied by Le Bas; recorded by K&R (no notebook entry); recorded by Gaudin (181); recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Bailie, 68; by Waddington, from Le Bas, LBW 590; by Reinach, from Gaudin, 123; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, 437, whence McCabe 108.

Photographs

Face (1973)

Face (2005)

Column (1976)

Representations

Deering notebook 8