Honours for Tiberius Claudius Attalos
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source date: Second to third centuries CE
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ἡ βούλη καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμησεν Τιβέριον Κλαύδιον Λουκίου Ἀντωνίου Κλαυδίου Δομετείνου Διογένους Ἀσίας ἀρχιερέως καὶ νομοθέτου υἱὸν Ἄτταλον συνκλητικὸν τὸν εὐεργέτην τῆς πατρίδος

[^a1: at 1: ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝ | ΛΟΥΚΙΟΝ [Waddington, and later copyists, could only read ION, and Reichel did not read the line at all; but it is possible that damage was done to line 1 much earlier.]]

[^a2: at 2: ΛΟΥΚΙΟΥ | ΛΟΥΚΙΟΥ | ΚΙΟΥ | ΛΟΥΚΙΟΥ]

[^a3: at 3: ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ [ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥ was read in full by Calder and earlier copyists]]

[^a4: at 4-5: ΑΣΙ ΑΣ | ΑΣ [...]Σ | ΑΣΙ [...]Σ | ΑΣ ΙΑΣ]

Public bodies honoured Tiberius Claudius Attalos, son of Lucius Antonius Claudius Dometinos Diogenes, highpriest of Asia and lawgiver; senatorial and benefactor of his homeland.

The Senator, Tiberius Claudius Attalus, son of Lucius Antonius Claudius Domitius Diogenes, High Priest of Asia, and Nomothetes: The benefactor of his native city.

Tiberius Claudius Attalus, son of Lucius Antonius Claudius Dometinus [?] Diogenes, the High-priest of Asia and Nomothetes, a Senator, the benefactor of his native city.

In our judgement, the first word of line one was probably ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝ, as reported by Wood, Fellows, Bailie (who did see this stone, although he made several mistakes in transcription), and (by implication) Loew (since Franz did not note that his reading differed from that of Fellows) and accepted by Cormack. ΛΟΥΚΙΟΝ figures in the copy made by the normally reliable Deering, and was accepted by Waddington and Reinach as being the lectio difficilior. Both could be fitted into the space available, since although ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝ is longer, it contains narrow letters. If we accept that when first seen the letters were already in poor condition (as is likely) both readings would be explicable mistakes: ΛΟΥΚΙΟΝ would be a reading influenced by the first word of line 2, ΤΙΒΕΡΙΟΝ by the nomen Claudius which follows. The existence of an Aphrodisian senator named Tiberius Claudius Attalos at approximately the right date () may seem to tip the balance, but is not absolutely conclusive.

[...] 14, 55, 14 loose page 46; [...] 5v, no. 23; [...]; [...]; [...]; [...]; [...] R.I.17v; [...] 117; [...]; [...]

[...] 37 , whence [...] 2781b (p. 1111); [...] 9 ; [...] p.43-44 , [...] 59 ; [...] a.3 (mention) ; by [...] 1596 ; [...] 44 (mention) ; [...] 502 whence [...] 293 , [...] H.77 (listed); [...] 12.520.