Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.801. Funerary inscription for Aba

Description: White marble block (w: 0.41 × h: 0.37 x depth not measurable). The upper left corner and all edges are chipped, and there is a crack across the lower right corner.

Text: Inscribed on the face, within a partly smoothed area

Letters: 0.02-0.03; theta and omicron smaller than the rest

Date: First century BCE to first century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-west: just east of 12.706

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Ἄβα Ἀτραπάτου
γυνὴ δὲ Ἀθηνα-
γόρου τοῦ Μηνο-
δότου Κασταίου
5( vac. ) χαῖρε ( vac. 4)
( vac. )

Diplomatic

ΑΒΑΑΤΡΑΠΑΤΟΥ
ΓΥΝΗΔΕΑΘΗΝΑ
ΓΟΡΟΥΤΟΥΜΗΝΟ
ΔΟΤΟΥΚΑΣΤΑΙΟΥ
5      ΧΑΙΡΕ        
     vacat

Apparatus

It is not clear to which of the two masculine names Kastaios was attached, but there is some indication in Aphrodisian practice that it would probably be Athenagoras.

Translation

Aba, (daughter of) Atrapatos, and wife of Athenagoras, son of Menodotos, also called Kastaios. Farewell

Bibliography

Transcription: Radet, 1887; Reichel, 1893 R.I.36,a; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition

Publication: Radet, 1890 12; MAMA 8 532 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 402 ; IAph2007 12.801.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1973)

Fig. 2. Reichel notebook, I, 36