Description: Sherard described these texts as on two funerary altars; Boeckh thought this unlikely. 'Upon a pedestal' Fellows; definitely statue bases, Bailie.
Text: Inscribed on the face. Sherard's description may imply that there was an upper moulding, in which case the texts are probably complete.
Letters: No description
Date: Second century CE (prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east stretch: 'on the east by south side to the south of the' (South-east?) 'gate' Sherard; 'In the west wall' Fellows; 'notozephyrum' Bailie.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1850)
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
(i). Attalos (set up a statue of) Diogenes his brother
(ii). Diogenes (set up a statue of) Attalos his brother
English translation
Translation source: Fellows, 1841
(i). Attalus [erects a statue of] Diogenes, his brother
Bibliography
Transcription: Picenini, 1705 28v, whence Sherard, 1705 12v; Sherard, 1716 120; Deering, 1812 5, no. 19 (i only); Fellows, 1840 (i only), ?whence Bailie, 1842 (i and ii); Loew, 1841 (i only); Waddington, 1850 (i only)
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2805a and b; i: Fellows, 1841 39 ; i and ii: Bailie, 1846 64 and 65 ; i noted by Franz, 1847Franz, from Loew, a.11 ; i: Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1615 ; from these McCabe, PHI, 1996 269, 244 , Smith, 2006 H.74 (listed) H.86 (listed); IAph2007 12.530.
Images
Fig. 1. Sherard, fair copy (Harley MS 7509), f.18v, at British Library
Fig. 2. Deering notebook, page 5