Description: A large white marble block from a composite monument (w: 1.12 × h: 1.38 × depth not measurable). Text i ends at the left side of the block; text ii occupies the centre, and text iii starts at the right end of the block. A further fragment, (w: 0.17 × h: 0.32 × d: 0.35) contained the ends of iii, lines 1-7

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.025

Date: Late second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, North stretch: 'Rempart. Mur du cirque (stade)' (Gaudin); reused in the wall north of the Stadium

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1973)

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

(i): The Council and the People and the Ger]ousia [honoured with the ?first] honours [Attalos] son of Pytheas, [ . . .] for life [a man of a first and] brilliant [family, ?one which contributed to the founding of the city, . . .] ?to the [citizens . . .] ?fatherland [ . . .] ?steward [ . . . ? with his wife Tata ] ?having sacrificed [ . . .] contests [ . . . in a manner appropriate to] his family, [ . . .living in a manner providean example of virtue]

(ii): The Council and the People and the Gerousia honoured with the first honours Tata, daughter of Diodoros, who was the adopted son of Diodoros and the natural son of Leon; she was holy priestess of Hera for life, Mother of the City, who became and reamined the wife of Attalos son of Pytheas, stephanephoros; she was herself of a first and distinguished family, and held the priesthood of the Augusti twice, having twice supplied oil in abundant measures from basins most lavishly even for most of the night; she served as stephanephoros and sacrificed every year (i.e. that she was in office) for the health of the Augusti; she feasted the People several times, providing all with seats; in dramatic and stage contests she first introduced the best recitals in Asia, and demonstrated to her fatherland how for the demonstration of recitals the neighbouring cities came together and shared in the festival; she was a woman who spared no expense, loving honour and adorned with virtue (scil. and) prodence.

(iii): The Council and the People and the Gerousia honoured with the finest and [great]est honours Diodoros, who was the adopted son of Diodoros and the natural son of Leon, a man of a first and [brilliant] family, one which contributed to the founding of the city, [a councillor], high priest for life of the lord [Augustus], who often gave contests for free and great prizes; he was a [gymnasiarch] and strategos and always lived in a manner appropriate to the [reputation] of his own family.

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