<rs type="textType">Posthumous <rs type="textType">honours</rs></rs> for M. Aur. Attalos

Joyce M. Reynolds, 2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

No description; reference to a statue (l.14) indicates that this was astatue base

Description of Text

If the block was complete the text will have begun on an upper feature.

Letters

No description

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (nomenclature)

Edition κατὰ τὰ ἐψηφισμένα ὑπὸ τῆ̣ς βουλῆς καὶ τοῦ δήμου Μᾶρκον Αὐρήλιον Ἄτταλον Ἀρτεμιδώρου πεντάκις τοῦ Μενίππου Ἀττάλου ἄνδρα τῶν εὖ γεγονότων ἀπὸ προγόνων ἀρχικῶν καὶ λειτουργῶν τελευτήσαντα νέον τὴν ἡλικίαν τὴν δὲ ἀνάστασιν τοῦ ἀνδριάντος ἐποιήσατο Αὐρηλία Ἀμμία ἡ μήτηρ αὐτοῦ ἀναθεῖσα τῇ κρατίστῃ̣ βοῦλῃ εἰς αἰωνίους διανομὰς ἀργύριον καθὼς διὰ τῆς ἀναθέσεως δηλοῦται
Apparatus

l. 3, ΜΑΡΧΟΥ Deering

Translation

... according] to what was decreed by the Council and the People [?set up a statue of] Marcus Aurelius Attalos, son of Artemidoros, the fifth of the name from Artemidoros son of Menippos ?Attalos, of the well-born class from ancestors who held magistracies and liturgies. He died while still a young man. Aurelia Ammia his mother set up the statue having given to the most powerful Council to provide permanent distributions a sum of money as is specified in the document of gift.

Commentary

It may be the father of the honorand who had the second name Attalos, rather than the ancestor, Menippos

Locations

Unknown No location given. Findspot (1812)

Text Constituted From

Deering; publications.

History of Recording

Copied by Deering, p.5v, no. 20; not reported subsequently.

Bibliography

Published by Leake, from Deering, 7, whence LBW 1609a, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 253 ; discussed by Liermann, pp.54 ff.

Representations

Deering notebook, page 5v