Description: Three fragments from a tabella ansata (w: 0.745 × h: 0.465) on a fluted white marble column; a (left side fragment) w: 0.30 × h: 0.30 × d: 0.14. b (centre fragment) w: 0.28 × h: 0.80 × d: 0.40. c (right lower corner) w: 0.27 × h: 0.36 × d: 0.29.
Text: Inscribed in tabella ansata.
Letters: 0.03-0.035
Date: Mid first century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church, Sector XI.
Original location: Temple/Church
Last recorded location: a nd c in Museum; b in Temple-church, chancel.
Apparatus
It is possible that some of the letters in Deering's copy are additions from the other texts. Letters read by us are underlined.
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 5v, no. 21, complete, except for the end of l.4, and l.8; it was broken by 1893, Kubitschek, June 1893 K.V.22 (fragment b); New York University expedition , (fragments a, b and c)
Publication: Cormack, 196437 (fragment b) , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 156; IAph2007 1.8.
Images
Fig. 1. Fragment a. (M. Roueché, 1972)
Fig. 2. Fragment b. (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 3. Fragment b. (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 4. Fragment c. (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 5. Fragment c. (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 6. Complete: Deering notebook, page 5v
Fig. 7. Fragment b: Kubitschek notebook V, 22 (a)