Honours for Attalos son of Pytheas and Tata daughter of Diodoros
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source date: Late second century CE
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ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος καὶ ἡ γερουσία ἐτείμησαν ταῖς πρώταις τειμαῖς [...] Ἄτταλον Πυθέου [...] διὰ βίου ἄνδρα γένους πρώτου καὶ λαμπροῦ [...] καὶ συνεκτικότος τὴν πατρίδα [...] καὶ λειτουργίαις [...] πρὸς τοὺς πολείτας [...] οδοισ [...] ἐν πᾶσιν [...] τῆς πατρίδος [...]α καὶ [...] ἀργυροταμίαν [...] σὺν τῇ γυναικὶ Τάτᾳ [...]ς θύσαντα [...]αντα [...]υτα [...] πολλῶν ἀγώνων ἀναθέντα [...]αντα [...] ἀναλογούντως τῷ γένει [...] πρὸς ὑπόδειγμα ἀρετῆς

ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος καὶ ἡ γερουσία ἐτείμησαν ταῖς πρώταις τειμαῖς Τάταν Διοδώρου τοῦ Διοδώρου τοῦ φύσει Λέοντος ἁγνὴν ἱέρειαν Ἥρας διὰ βίου μητέρα πόλεως γυναῖκα γενομένην καὶ μείνασαν Ἀττάλου τοῦ Πυθέου στεφανηφόρου καὶ αὐτὴν γένους πρώτου καὶ λαμπροῦ ἱερατεύσασαν τῶν Σεβαστῶν ἐκ δευτέρου ἀλείψασαν δὶς δρακτοῖς ἐκ λουτήρων ἐπιρύτοις δαψιλέστατα τὸ πλεῖστον μέρος καὶ τῆς νυκτός στεφανηφορήσασαν θύσασαν παρ′ ὅλους τοὺς ἐνιαυτοὺς ὑπὲρ τῆς ὑγήας τῶν Σεβαστῶν ἑστιάσασαν τὸν δῆμον πλεονάκις καὶ πανδήμοις κατακλίσεσιν ἔν τε τοῖς θυμελικοῖς καὶ σκηνικοῖς ἀγῶσιν τὰ πρωτεύοντα ἐν τῇ Ἀσίᾳ ἀκροάματα αὐτὴν πρώτως ἀγαγοῦσαν καὶ δείξασαν τῇ πατρίδι ὡς ἐπὶ τὴν δεῖξιν τῶν ἀκροαμάτων συνελθεῖν καὶ συνεορτάσαι τὰς ἀστυγειτνιώσας πόλεις· γυναῖκα μηδενὸς ἀναλώματος φεισαμένην φιλόδοξον ἀρετῇ σωφροσύνῃ κεκοσμημένην

ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος καὶ ἡ γερουσία ἐτείμησαν ταῖς καλλίσταις καὶ μεγίσταις τειμαῖς Διόδωρον Διοδώρου τὸν φύσει Λέοντος ἄνδρα γένους πρώτου καὶ λαμπροῦ καὶ συνεκτικότος τὴν πατρίδα βουλευτήν ἀρχιερεύσαντα διὰ βίου τοῦ κυρίου Σεβαστοῦ δωρεάν ἀγῶσιν ἀναθέντα πλεονάκις καὶ θέματα μεγάλα γυμνασιαρχήσαντα στρατηγήσαντα ζήσαντα ἀεὶ ἀναλογούντως τῷ γένους τοῦ ἰδίου ἀξιώματι.

[^1]: 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]

[^1: i]

[^2]: 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 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 and prodence.

[^2: ii]

[^3]: 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.

[^3: iii]

ii: [...] 11v; [...] 18v; [...] 13; i, ii and iii: [...]; [...]; [...] xxx; [...] 103; [...] together with a further fragment (iii, ends of lines 1-7); [...]

ii: [...] 2820 ; i, ii and iii: [...] 7 ; [...] 1602 , whence ii, [...] 17 ; [...] 76 ; [...] 492 , whence [...] 217, [...] 246, 328, 267 , [...] H.205, H.206, H.207 (listed); [...] 12.29.