Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

5.201. Building dedication to Patris by Attalos Andron son of Peritas

Description: White marble column plinth.

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.06

Date: Hadrianic 117/138 CE (archaeological context, lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, West portico: in the north section on the base of fourth column, east face

Original location: Hadrianic Baths, East court/Palaestra, West portico

Last recorded location: Findspot (1913)

Interpretive

Ἄτταλος Περείτου τοῦ Δημητρίου Ἄνδρων τῇ πα-
τρίδι ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων τοῦτον τὸν κείονα ἀνέθηκεν
σῦν τῷ σπειροκεφάλῳ

Diplomatic

ΑΤΤΑΛΟΣΠΕΡΕΙΤΟΥΤΟΥΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥΑΝΔΡΩΝΤΗΠΑ
ΤΡΙΔΙΕΚΤΩΝΙΔΙΩΝΤΟΥΤΟΝΤΟΝΚΕΙΟΝΑΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ
ΣΥΝΤΩΣΠΕΙΡΟΚΕΦΑΛΩ

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

Attalos Andron son of Peritas the son of Demetrios dedicated this column with its capital for his homeland at his own expense.

Commentary

One of the column base dedications from west portico of the East Court of the Hadrianic Baths. From north section: 5.206, 5.201, 5.221; from the south section 5.220, 5.202, 15.19; cf also 15.370

Bibliography

Transcription: Boulanger, notebooks 21 October: A, 74 no 14, whence B 21, no. 26, C, no.5

Publication: Haussoullier, 1920 74, from Boulanger, whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 133 ; IAph2007 5.201; Wilson, 2016 8.5 (description).

Images

Fig. 1. Boulanger A, 74

Fig. 2. Boulanger B, 21