Description: White marble tabella ansata (w: 0.71 × h: 0.44) cut on fluted column.
Text: Cut on the second drum from the base of the column.
Letters: 0.025-0.0275
Date: Early first century CE (lettering, context, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: 9th column from west end of North aisle colonnade
Original location: Temple/Church: findspot.
Last recorded location: Findspot
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
Eumachus Diogenes son of Athenagoras the son of Athenagoras the son of Eumachus, (entitled) Friend of Caesar, and Ammias Olympias, daughter of Dionysius, by birth daughter of Adrastus the son of Molon (dedicated) the column for the goddess Aphrodite and the People.
English translation
Translation source: Fellows, 1841
Eumachus Diogenes Philocaesar, the son of Athenagoras, the son of Athenagoras, the son of Eumachus; and Ammias Olympias, the [adopted] daughter of Dionysius, but by birth that of Adrastus, the son of Molon; [give] this column to the goddess Aphrodite and to 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 10102, 20; Sherard, 1705 10101, 12r; Deering, 1812 2v, no.10; Fellows, 1840; Le Bas, 1843; Waddington, 1850; Gaudin, 1904 881; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2748 , whence Texier, 1839 161; Fellows, 1841 13 , whence CIG II.3, 1843 p. 1109, and from all these Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 from Le Bas, 591, and from Waddington, 1587 ; Reinach, 1906 124 (mention); MAMA 8 438 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996109; IAph2007 1.5.
Images
Fig. 1. Text (M. Roueché, 1973)
Fig. 2. Text (Graham, 2005)
Fig. 3. Text (Graham, 2005)
Fig. 4. Column (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 5. Column (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 6. Deering page 2v