<rs type="textType" cert="low">Funerary</rs> <rs type="textType">honours</rs> for Geis and Heraios

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble architrave block (1.22 × 0.42 × depth not measurable), with upper moulding chipped away.

Description of Text

Inscribed on a single fasci, i. to the left of ii. The block appeara complete to the left; i. must have begun on an adjoining block.

Description of Letters

0.055-0.065

Date

First century B.C. - first century A.D. (lettering)

Edition
ἡ βουλὴ καί ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησεν Ἡραῖον
ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμοςἐτείμησεν Γειν Ἀττάλου γυναῖκα Ἡραίου
Text Constituted From

Publications; Sherard papers; notebooks; Gaudin's squeeze; Preliminary transcription (Reynolds).

Translation

ii. The council and the people honoured Geis daughter of Attalos, wife of Heraios.

Commentary

No commentary yet (2007)

Locations

reused in the Walls, South (east part), in the area excavated in 1975 Findspot (1973). Unknown.

History of Recording

Recorded by Sherard (10101, 12v) and Picenini (10102, 18v) in 1705; by Fellows; by Loew; by Kubitschek (KIII.45) noted by Reichael (R I, 24v); recorded by Gaudin (19); by the MAMA expedition; and by the NYU expedition in 1973.

Bibliography

Published from Sherard and Picenini by Boeckh, CIG 2809; by Fellows, Acct. 326-327, no. 36, whence CIG II pp. 1112 and 1115; by Franz, from Loew, Ann. d. Inst. 19, 1847, 110-111, no. a.18; from Gaudin's squeeze by Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 121, no. 47; from the MAMA records by Cormack, MAMA 8, no. 465 whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 277

Photographs

Face (1973)
Face and wall (1973)

Representations

Kubitschek notebook, III, 45
Reichel notebook, I.24v (noted)