<rs type="textType">Column dedication</rs> by Attalos and Attalis

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Tabella ansata (0.745 × 0.465) on a fluted white marble column of the Temple.

Description of Text

Inscribed in tabella ansata.

Letters

0.025-0.03

Date

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

Edition Ἄτταλος Μενάνδρου τοῦἈττάλου καὶ Ἀτταλὶς Μενεκράτους Ἄπφιον οἱ ἱερεῖς τῆς Ἀφροδείτης θεᾷ Ἀφροδείτῃ καὶ τῷ Δήμωι
Text Constituted From

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

Translation

Attalos son of Menandros the son of Attalos, and Attalis Apphion daughter of Menekrates, priests of Aphrodite, 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+); see discussed by Reynolds, 'Inscriptions and the Building of the Temple', Aphrodisias Papers (Ann Arbor, 1990), 37-40, 38.

On the donors see also Reynolds, ZPE 43 (1981), 319-20.

Locations

Temple/Church: on column. Temple/Church: on a column fallen from the north colonnadeFindspot

History of Recording

Copied by Deering (1); copied by Le Bas; recorded by Gaudin (76); recorded by the MAMA expedition; recorded by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Leake, from Deering, 1, whence Bailie 69; published by Waddington, LBW 589; published by Reinach, from Gaudin, 125; published by Cormackfrom the MAMA records, MAMA 8, 450 , whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 101.

Photographs

Face (1978)
Face (1978)

Representations

Deering notebook, 1