Description: Tabella ansata (w: 0.745 × h: 0.465) on a fluted white marble column of the Temple.
Text: Inscribed in tabella ansata.
Letters: 0.025-0.03
Date: Early first century CE (lettering, context, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: on a column fallen from the North aisle colonnade
Original location: Temple/Church, North aisle.
Last recorded location: Findspot
Translation
Attalos son of Menandros the son of Attalos, and Attalis Apphion daughter of Menekrates, priests of Aphrodite, 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: Deering, 1812 p.1, no.1; Bailie, 1842; Le Bas, 1843; Gaudin, 1904 76; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition
Publication: Leake, 1843 1 ; Bailie, 1846 69 ; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 589 ; Reinach, 1906125 (mention); MAMA 8 450 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 101 ; IAph2007 1.7.
Images
Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 3. Deering notebook, 1