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Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Tabella ansata (0.455 × 0.44) on fluted column section, which is broken above.

Description of Text

Inscribed in tabella ansata.

Letters

0.015-0.025; square sigma, two forms of omega, ΟΥ in ligature (l. 2).

Date

Early first century A.D. (context, prosopography); this is in a very inelegant hand, on the face of it much later than the parallel column texts (1.4, 1.5); ?perhaps a re-inscription.

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

l. 1, Εὔμαχος Reinach

l. 6-7, τοῦ Μόλωνος Reinach

Translation

Eumachos Diogenes son of Athenagoras the son of Athenagoras the son of Eumachos, entitled Friend of Caesar, and Ammias Olympias, daughter of Dionysios, by birth daughter 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', 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.

The rough hand and incompetent organisation of this text suggest that this is perhaps a copy of the other texts of these donors (1.4, 1.5 [=MAMA 437-8]), made after restoration.

Locations

Temple/Church: standing on the fourth column base from west of the north colonnadeTemple/Church, findspot. ; Findspot

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications, notebooks.

History of Recording

Recorded by Kubitschek (V, 22; Abklatsch 112); by Gaudin (51); found by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published from Gaudin by Reinach, 122, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 87.

Photographs

Face (1973)
Face (1976)

Representations

Kubitschek notebook V, 22