<rs type="textType">Column dedication</rs> by Eumachos and Ammias

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble tabella ansata (0.71 × 0.44) cut on fluted column.

Description of Text

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

Letters

0.025-0.0275

Date

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

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

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

Translation

Eumachus Diogenes son of Athenagoras the son of Athenagoras the son of Eumachus, (entitled) Friend of Caesar, and Ammias Olympias, daughter of Dionysius, by birth daughter of Adrastus 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', Aphrodisias Papers (Ann Arbor, 1990), 37-40, 38; see also Reynolds, 'The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship', Steine und Wege (Vienna, 1999), 327-334, 334, C.1.

Locations

Findspot Temple/Church: 9th column from west end of north colonnade ; Last known location: Findspot

History of Recording

Copied by Sherard in 1705 (10101, 12r) and by Picenini (10102, 20); copied by Deering (2v, no.10); copied by Fellows; copied by Le Bas, and perhaps the same inscription copied by Waddington; Recorded by Gaudin (88); recorded by the MAMA expedition; recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh, from Sherard, CIG 2748 ; published by Fellows, 13, whence CIG add. p. 1109, and from all these Texier 1. Published by Waddington from Le Bas, LBW 591, and from his own copy, LBW 1587 . Published by Reinach from Gaudin, 124 ; published by Cormackfrom the MAMA records, 438 , whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 109.

Photographs

Text (1973)
Text (2005)
Text (2005)
Column (1976)
Column (1976)

Representations

Deering page 2v