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Joyce M. Reynolds 1996

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Originally published in Reynolds (1996).

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Description of Monument

Two white marble blocks, one complete (a), one in two pieces (b and c) both with a drafted margin along the bottom but not the top edge. b + c also has drafted margins along both side edges, and a may have done, but it is damaged down the left side and broken away at the right. a (containing Column I) surviving width 0.67 x o.415 x depth (part buried) not less than 0.36, damaged along all edges, broken away at the upper left-hand corner and the whole right-hand side. b and c from the right and left lower sides of a block with a recessed border, containing Column II. b : left side, (0.42 × 0.40 × 0.455); c: right side, (0.25 × 0.415 × 0.46). Both are worn , particularly b.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face, in two columns

Letters

rather mannered; column I: 0.012-0.013; column II 0.13 - 0.15.

Date

First to second centuries A.D. (lettering, prosopography)

Edition
εἰσησαγαμένης τῆς βουλῆς ἔδοξε τῇ βούλῃ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ γνώμη ἀρχόντων καὶ Ζήνωνος τοῦ Ὑψικλέους τοῦ Ζήνωνος τοῦ Ὑψικλέ ους τοῦ Μενάνδρου τοῦ Ζήνωνος γραμματέως δήμου τὸ δεύ τερον καὶ Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ Δημητρίου τοῦ Λ τοῦ Δημη τρίου καὶ Διογένης τοῦ Διογένους τοῦ Μενάνδρου τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας στρατηγῶν ἐπεὶ Τατία Ὑψικλέους τοῦ Ἀδράστου τοῦ Νεικοτείμου τοῦ Ἀρτεμιδώρου τοῦ Ζήνωνος Ἱέρα κος Ἀτταλὶς γενομένη ἱερεία Σεβαστῶν πάτρος καὶ προγό νων ὑπάρχουσα τῶν πρώτων καὶ συνεκτικότων τὴν πατρίδα καὶ ἐν γυμνασιαρχίαις καὶ στεφανηφορίαις καὶ ἀγωνοθεσίαις καὶ ἀρχιερωσύναις καὶ ἔργων ἀναθέσεσιν καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων γεγονότων ζήσασα βίον σώφρονα καὶ κοσμίον καὶ ἀναλο γοῦντα τῇ τοῦ γένους σεμνότητι προμοίρως νῦν μεθίσταται τοῦ βίου ἐπί τε τούτῳ δημόσιον ἡ πόλις ἁρπάσασά τε τὸ πτῶμα ὁμοθυμαδὸν
ἐν τῇ πόλει ἀπέθετο ΕΞΕΣ ΕΣ καὶ τῆς ἀξίας ΟΤΗ τὴν πατρίδα ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος Σ τε τὴν ἡρωίδα καὶ ΠΡΟΗΚΑΤΟΦΛΑΣ ἀναλογοῦσας δεδόχθαι τῇ βούλῃ καὶ τῷ δήμῳ τετειμῆσθαι μὲν καὶ μετηλλακχυῖαν Τατίαν Ἀτταλὶν ταῖς καλλίσταις καὶ μεγίσταις τειμαῖς ἐντεθάφθαι δὲ αὐτὴν ἐν τῇ πόλει ἐν τῷ Ἀδράστου τοῦ πάππου αὐτῆς μνημείῳ τοῦ πολλὰ καὶ μεγάλα καὶ ἐν πολλοῖς τὴν πόλιν εὐεργετηκότος ἀγορεύεσθαι δὲ αὐτὴν καὶ στεφανοῦσθαι ἐν ταῖς καθ' ἕκαστον ἐνιαυτὸν ἀγομέναις ἀρχαιρεσίαις ἀμὰ καὶ τειμᾶσθαι ἀνδριάντων καὶ ἀγαλμάτων καὶ εἰκόνων ἐπιχρύσων ἐν ἱεροῖς ἢ δημοσίοις τόποις ἀναθέσεσιν ἐν τῇ πόλει
Translation

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Commentary

See publications and discussions, below; see also R. van Bremen, The limits of participation (Amsterdam, 1996), 156-7.

Locations

a: Walls, East (north part): found in the NE facing stretch of wall north of the East gate. b: City, Village: in ruins of a village house east of the teahouse; c a stray find. Unknown a, findspot; b and c Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); Gaudin squeeze.

History of Recording

a recorded by Gaudin (81), and by the NYU expedition; b and c recorded by the NYU expedition, b in 1983 (83.178), c in 1990.

Bibliography

a published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, 9, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 20 ; whole text published by Joyce Reynolds and Charlotte Roueché, 'The funeral of Tatia Attalis of Aphrodisias', Ktéma 17 (1992, published 1996), 153-60, whence BullEp 1997.523, SEG 1995.1502. Comments by C. P. Jones, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 143 (1999), 597-600, whence SEG 50 2000.1097..

Photographs

a, face (1975)
b, face (1983)
b, face (1985)
c, face (1990)
c, face (1990)

Representations

a: Gaudin squeeze