Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.305. Dedication by M. Iulius Attalos, imperial freedman, to Aphrodite, the imperial house, and the Senate and People of Rome.

Description: Large white marble block broken away at the right side, originally with moulding on all three surviving faces (w: 1.52 × h: 0.99 × d: 0.54).

Text: Inscribed on the reverse face

Letters: 0.04

Date: First century CE (lettering, content)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, East stretch (south part): re-used on the inner face of the eastern stretch, north of the East Gate, near IAph 12.301, 12.318.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Θειότητι Αὐτοκρατόρων θεᾷ Ἀφροδίτῃ γενε̣[τείρᾳ]
Συνκλήτῳ Δήμῳ Ῥωμαίων πολείταις εὐχαρισ[τῶν]
Μᾶρκος Ἰούλιος Ἄτταλος ἀπελεύθερος Καίσα[ρος]

Diplomatic

ΘΕΙΟΤΗΤΙΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤΟΡΩΝΘΕΑΑΦΡΟΔΙΤΗΓΕΝ.[.....]
ΣΥΝΚΛΗΤΩΔΗΜΩΡΩΜΑΙΩΝΠΟΛΕΙΤΑΙΣΕΥΧΑΡΙΣ[...]
ΜΑΡΚΟΣΙΟΥΛΙΟΣΑΤΤΑΛΟΣΑΠΕΛΕΥΘΕΡΟΣΚΑΙΣΑ[...]

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

For the divinity of the Imperatores, for goddess Aphrodite Genetrix, for the Senate and People of Rome, for the citizens, in gratitude Marcus Julius Attalos, freedman of Caesar.

English translation

Translation source: Reynolds, 1982

To the divinity of the Emperors, the goddess Aphrodite Genetrix (?), the Senate and People of Rome, the citizens, in gratitude, Marcus Julius Attalus, freedman of Caesar.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1978, Walls 108

Publication: Reynolds, 1980 2 , whence SEG 30.1253 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1982.355 , AE 1980.867 ; Reynolds, 1982 54 , whence SEG 32.1097 , Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1983.391 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 150; IAph2007 12.305.

Images

Fig. 1. Block (M. Crawford)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1981)

Fig. 3. Squeeze (M. Roueché, 1978)