Description: Two matching white marble bases, with moulding at top and bottom; a: complete (w: 0.625 × h: 0.90 × d: 0.615).
Text: Inscribed on the face (w: 0.48 × h: 0.52) which is broken above and at left side. b: Four adjoining fragments, inscribed on the face.
Letters: Severan; 0.04-0.045
Date: Severan (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Bouleuterion/Odeon: concluding the end balustrades at either side of the cavea: a to the east and b to the west.
Original location: Bouleuterion/Odeon, cavea
Last recorded location: a in situ, b in Museum (1978)
Apparatus
a.1-2: In lines 1-2 a nomen preceding Ἄτταλος seems likely, and Κλαύδιος is certain in view of the prosopography; the praenomen,
if given, was probably Τιβέριος (see 12.520). If there was more text before line 1 it must have been cut on the lost moulding or on a plinth placed above that.
b.1: Line 1 was probably preceded by the nomen and perhaps by the praenomen of Attalos, cut on the lost moulding: undoubtedly Claudius,
(see below) with perhaps the praenomen Tiberius.
Translation
a: [Tiberius Claud]ius Attalos, senator.
b: [Tib(erius) Claudius] Attalos (erected the statue of) Diogenes, his brother
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition a: Odeon 18, b: Odeon 19
Publication: Smith, 2006 H.76 (listed) H.87 (listed); IAph2007 2.16, whence AE 2007.1403; Reynolds, 2008b 1, 2, whence SEG 58.1158
Images
Fig. 1. a (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)
Fig. 2. a (M. Roueché, 1977)
Fig. 3. b, fragment 1 (M. Roueché, 1976)
Fig. 4. b, fragment 2 (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 5. b, fragment 3 (M. Roueché, 1976)