<rs type="textType">Posthumous <rs type="textType">honours</rs></rs> for Attalos son of Makedon

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble block with a drafted margin at top and both sides (0.60 × 1.21 × 0.44);

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Description of Letters

0.02–0.0225; square sigma, cursive omega

Date

Perhaps second half of the first century A.D. (lettering)

Edition ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος καὶ ἡ γερουσία καὶ οἱ νέοι ἐτείμησαν Ἄτταλον Μακεδόνος τοῦ Ἀριστέου τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀπολλωνίδου διά τε τὴν ἰδίαν ἀρετὴν καὶ τὴν τῶν προγόνων διά τε φιλοδοξιῶν καὶ ἀναθημάτων πρὸς τὸν δῆ μον εὔνοιαν
Text Constituted From

Publications; Sherard papers; Kubitschek squeeze; Gaudin squeeze.

Apparatus

Sherard transcribed every two lines as if they were one.

Translation

The Council and the People and the Gerousia and the Young Men honoured Attalos son of Makedon son of Aristeas son of Alexandros Apollonidas for his own virtue and that of his ancestors, and the goodwill to the people shown through his public services and dedications.

Commentary

See Reynolds, The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship, Steine und Wege (Vienna 1999), 327-334.

Locations

Walls, East (south part): re-used just north of the South-east gate, north of 12.326, 12.325 (=MAMA 501, 451). unknownFindspot (1973)

History of Recording

Recorded by Sherard (10101, f.9) and Picenini (10102, 13v, 71); by Fellows; ?perhaps by Bailie; by Waddington; by Kubitschek and Reichel (Abklatsch 79, no notebook entry); by Gaudin; (100); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh, from Sherard (misrepresenting the line lengths) and Picenini, CIG 2781, ; by Fellows, Acct. 327-328, no. 32 whence CIG II p. 1111, whence Bailie, Fasc. ii 18-19 and 278, no. 47; by Waddington, LBW 1600 mentioned by Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 120, no. 43byCormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 479, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 245. Discussed by Reynolds, The first known Aphrodisian to hold a procuratorship, Steine und Wege (Vienna 1999), 327-334, Appendix C, no 2.

Photographs

Face (1973)
Face (1973)

Representations

Gaudin squeeze 100