Description: Tabella ansata (w: 0.455 × h: 0.44) on fluted column section, which is broken above.

Text: Inscribed in tabella ansata.

Letters: 0.015-0.025; square sigma, two forms of omega, ΟΥ in ligature (l. 2).

Date: Early first century CE; this is in a very inelegant hand, on the face of it much later than the parallel column texts (1.4, 1.5); ?perhaps a re-inscription. (context, prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church, on the fourth column from west of the North aisle colonnade

Original location: Temple/Church: findspot.

Last recorded location: Findspot

Translation

Eumachos Diogenes son of Athenagoras the son of Athenagoras the son of Eumachos, (scil. entitled) Friend of Caesar, and Ammias Olympias, daughter of Dionysios, by birth daughter of Adrastos the son of Molon (scil. 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

The rough hand and incompetent transcription and organisation of this text suggest that this is perhaps a copy of the other texts of these donors (1.4, 1.5), made after restoration.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1976)

Fig. 3. Kubitschek notebook V, 22