<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> inscription and <rs type="textType">honours</rs> for Attalos son of Attalos

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

White marble block chipped along the upper edge and still partly buried (visible 1.13 x 0.38 x 0.62).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

Early, probably I A.D.; ave. 0.018. pi with a short second upright; rho with a small stroke from the lower junction of the bowll with the upright; serifs small and not invariably used; lineation uneven.

Date

First century A.D. (lettering).

Edition ὁ δῆμος ἔθαψεν Ἄτταλον Ἀττάλου τοῦ Ἀττάλου τοῦ Ἑρμολάου παῖδα τὴν ἡλικίαν καὶ ἐστεφάνωσεν χρυσῷ στεφάνωι
Translation

The People buried Attalos son of Attalos son of Attalos son of Hermolaos, a boy in age-group, and crowned him with a gold crown.

Commentary

The honorand was from a family of the civic aristocracy. The text also attests a formal organisation of children, and the civic practice of honours for the children of the prominent

Locations

built face-upwards into Walls, East (south part), south of the entrance to the site, near 12.328, 12.320 (=MAMA 428, 556b). Unknown Findspot (1975)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition (Walls 133).

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1975)