Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.219. Fragment from honours for Attalos

Description: Piece from the top of a white marble panel, whose bottom perhaps also survives (w: 0.15 × h: 0.155 × d: 0.13).

Text: Inscribed on one face

Letters: lines 1, 4, 0.02; lines 2, 3, 0.025. In line 2, the second Λ has been added as a correction, small and above the line.

Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray: brought by a child.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[---καὶ ὁ? δῆ?]μ̣ος ἐ[τείμησαν?---]
[---]Α̣ΛΛΑΕ̣ΑΣ̣[---]
[---]Ἀτταλο[---]
[---]ΣΩΣΤΕ̣[---]

Diplomatic

[---......].ΟΣΕ[........---]
[---].ΛΛΑ.Α.[---]
[---]ΑΤΤΑΛΟ[---]
[---]ΣΩΣΤ.[---]

Apparatus

2: just possibly e.g. ἀ̣λλα ⸢ς⸣ ἀξ̣ [ίας]
4: e.g. [χρυ]σῳ στε[φανῳ] or [εἴ]σωστε[ι]

Translation

...] Attalos [...

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 68.274

Publication: IAph2007 15.219.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (Mehmet Ali Döğenci, 1968)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)