<rs type="textType">Dedication</rs> by M. Iulius Attalos, imperial freedman, to Aphrodite, the imperial house, and the Senate and People of Rome.

Joyce M. Reynolds1982

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Originally published in Reynolds (1982).

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Description of Monument

Large white marble block broken away at the right side, originally with moulding on all three surviving faces (1.52 x 0.99 x 0.54).

Description of Text

inscribed on the reverse face

Letters

0.04

Date

First century A.D. (lettering, content)

Edition Θειότητι Αὐτοκρατόρων Θεᾷ Ἀφροδίτῃ γενετείρᾳ Συνκλήτῳ Δήμῳ Ῥωμαίων πολείταις εὐχαριστῶν Μᾶρκος Ἰούλιος Ἄτταλος ἀπελεύθερος Καίσαρος
Translation

For the divinity of the Imperatores, for goddess Aphrodite Genetrix, for the Senate and People of Rome, for the citizens, in gratitude Marcus Julius Attalos, freedman of Caesar.

Commentary

See Reynolds, Aphrodisias and Rome, 182,‘Further information’, 111-2, and ‘Ruler-cult’, 50.

Locations

Walls, East (south part): re-used on the inner face of the eastern stretch, north of the East Gate, near IAph 12.301, 12.318. unknown Findspot

Text Constituted From

transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1978 (Walls 108)

Bibliography

Published by Reynolds, PCPS 206, 1980, 73-74, no. 2, whence SEG 1980.1253, BullEp 1982.355, AnnEpig 1980, 867; republished by Reynolds, Aphrodisias & Rome, doc. 54, whence SEG 1982.1097, BullEp 1983.391, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 150 .

Photographs

Face (1981)

Representations

Squeeze (1978)