Description: White marble fluted column.
Text: Inscribed in a tabella ansata (w: 0.71 × h: 0.42) on the second drum from the base of the column.
Letters: 0.02-0.03
Date: Early first century CE (lettering, context, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: 7th column from west end of North aisle colonnade
Original location: Temple/Church: North aisle
Last recorded location: Findspot
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
Eumachos Diogenes son of Athenagoras the son of Athenagoras the son of Eumachos, (entitled) Friend of Caesar, and Amias Olympias, daughter of Dionysios, by birth of Adrastos, the son of Molon (dedicated) the column for the goddess Aphrodite and the People.
Commentary
One of the group of column dedications from the north colonnade of the Temple of Aphrodite: 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8.
Bibliography
Transcription: Picenini, 1705 20; Sherard, 1705 12; Deering, 1812 p.8, no.33; Fellows, 1840; Bailie, 1842; Le Bas, 1843; Kubitschek, June 1893 xxx; Gaudin, 1904 181; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition.
Publication: Fellows, 1841 13 (noted) ; Bailie, 1846 68; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 590 ; Reinach, 1906 123 ; MAMA 8 437 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996, 108; IAph2007 1.4.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 2. Face (Graham, 2005)
Fig. 3. Column (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 4. Deering notebook 8