Description of Monument

White marble statue base without moulding (0.575 × 1.325 × 0.51) which is damaged at the upper left corner and along the top edge.

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face. The text will have begun on an upper feature.

Description of Letters

0.03-0.04; ligatures: ΤΗΝ, l. 9.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering and prosopography).

Edition e.g. ἡ βούλη καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησεν Τιβέριον Κλαύδιον Λουκίου Ἀντωνίου Κλαυδίου Δομετείνου Διογένους Ἀσίας ἀρχιερέως καὶ νομοθέτου υἱὸν Ἄτταλον συνκλητικὸν τὸν εὐεργέτην τῆς πατρίδος

Apparatus

The stone may have deteriorated since it was first copied, especially in ll.1-5; see commentary.

l.1, ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝ Wood, Fellows, Bailie, accepted by MAMA; ΛΟΥΚΙΟΝ Deering, accepted by Waddington, Reinach. Waddington, and later copyists, could only read ION, and Reichel read nothing; but it is possible that damage was done to l. 1 much earlier.

l.2, ΛΟΥΚΙΟΥ Deering, Wood; ΛΟΥΚΙΟΥ Fellows, Waddington; ΛΟΥΚΙΟΥ MAMA; ΛΟΥΚΙΟΥ NYU

l.3, ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ was read in full by MAMA and previous copyists; ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ NYU

ll.4/5, ΑΣΙΑΣ Wood; ΑΣΣ Deering, Fellows, NYU; ΑΣΙΣ Waddington; ΑΣΙΑΣ MAMA

Translation

Public bodies honoured Tiberius Claudius Attalos, son of Lucius Antonius Claudius Dometinos Diogenes, highpriest of Asia and lawgiver; senatorial and benefactor of his homeland.

Commentary

In our judgement, the first word of line one was probably ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝ, as reported by Wood, Fellows, Bailie (who did see this stone, although he made several mistakes in transcription), and (by implication) Loew (since Franz did not note that his reading differed from that of Fellows) and accepted by Cormack. ΛΟΥΚΙΟΝ figures in the copy made by the normally reliable Deering, and was accepted by Waddington and Reinach as being the lectio difficilior. Both could be fitted into the space available, since although ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝ is longer, it contains narrow letters. If we accept that when first seen the letters were already in poor condition (as is likely) both readings would be explicable mistakes: ΛΟΥΚΙΟΝ would be a reading influenced by the first word of l.2, ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝ by the nomen Claudius which follows. The existence of an Aphrodisian senator named Tiberius Claudius Attalos at approximately the right date (2.16) may seem to tip the balance, but is not absolutely conclusive.

Locations

Found: Walls, South-east: fallen from the south wall, south-west of the East Gate, a little west of 12.525 . Original location: Unknown. Last recorded: Findspot (1973).

History of Recording

Recorded by Wood (14, p. 46); by Deering (f. 5v, no. 23); by Fellows; by Loew; by Bailie, (Researches 43-4); by Waddington; by K&R (RI.17v, mention); by Gaudin; by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Fellows, Acct. 327-328, no. 37, whence 2781b (p. 1111); from Deering by Leake, 1843, 236 and 292 no. 9; from his own copy by Bailie, 59; mentioned, from Loew, by Franz, a.3; by Waddington, 1596; mentioned, from Gaudin's squeeze, by Reinach, 19, 1906, 120, no. 44; from the MAMA records, by Cormack, 8, no. 502 whence McCabe 293.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); publications; Deering; Gaudin's squeeze.

Photographs

Face (1973)

Representations

Deering notebook 5v

Wood notebook 14, page 46