Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

11.8. Funerary for Attalos son of Menippos(?)

Description: White marble block (w: 1.235 × h: 0.635 × d: 0.20).

Text: Inscribed at the centre right of one face; from a complex of which this was the right hand element. There is a very slight drafting onto which some letters impinge.

Letters: Standard forms, ave. 0.025

Date: First to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, Village: Stray find from demolished house near SW Sebasteion trench.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1988)

Interpretive

[---] ἡ σορὸς σὺν τῷ βωμῷ ( vac. )
[---] Ἀττάλου τοῦ Μενίππου ( vac. )
[---] τοῦ Ἀθηναγόρου ( vac. 2) ζῇ ( vac. )

Diplomatic

[---]ΗΣΟΡΟΣΣΥΝΤΩΒΩΜΩ      
[---]ΑΤΤΑΛΟΥΤΟΥΜΕΝΙΠΠΟΥ      
[---]ΤΟΥΑΘΗΝΑΓΟΡΟΥ    ΖΗ      

Apparatus

The block is part of a composite monumnet; it is possible that the text is complete, and that there was nothing to the left.

Translation

The tomb with the base [is the property] of Attalos son of Menippos [? . . . ] son of Athenagoras. He lives.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 87.377.

Publication: IAph2007 11.8.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1988)

Fig. 2. Detail (M. Roueché, 1988)