Description of Monument

Three fragments from a tabella ansata (0.745 x 0.465) on a fluted white marble column; a (left side fragment) 0.30 × 0.30 × 0.14. b (centre fragment) 0.28 × 0.80 × 0.40. c (right lower corner) 0.27 × 0.36 × 0.29.

Description of Text

Inscribed in tabella ansata.

Letters

0.03-0.035

Date

Mid first century A.D. (lettering)

Edition Ἄτταλος Μενάνδρου τοῦ Ἀττάλου καὶ Ἀτταλὶς ΜενεκράτουςἌπφιον οἱ ἱερεῖς τῆς Ἀφροδείτης θεᾷ Ἀφροδείτῃ καὶ τῷ Δήμωι

Apparatus

Letters read by us are highlighted.

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', (Ann Arbor, 1990), 37-40, 38.

Locations

Findspot: on column. Temple/Church, section XI.a nd c in Museum; b in Temple-church, chancel.

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications.

History of Recording

The text was copied by Deering (5v, no. 21) who saw it complete, except for the end of l.4, and l.8; It was broken by 1893, when fragment b was copied by Kubitschek (V.22a). a-c excavated by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

b published from K&R by Cormack, ABSA 59, 1964, 27, no. 37, whence McCabe 156; a and c unpublished

Photographs

Fragment a. (1972)

Fragment b. (1977)

Fragment c. (1977)

Representations

Complete: Deering notebook, page 5v

Fragment b: Kubitschek notebook V, 22 (a)