Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.321. Posthumous honours for M. Aur. Attalos

Description: No description; reference to a statue (line 14) indicates that this was a statue base

Text: If the block was complete the text will have begun on an upper feature.

Letters: No description

Date: Second to third centuries CE (nomenclature)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: No location given.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1812)

Interpretive

[...κατὰ]
τὰ ἐ[ψηφισμ]ένα ὑ-
πὸ τῆ̣[ς β]ο̣υλῆς καὶ
τοῦ δήμου Μᾶρκ̣ον
5 Αὐρ(ήλιον) Ἄτταλον Ἀρτε-
μιδώρου πεντάκ̣[ις]
τοῦ Μενίππου Ἀτ-
τάλου ἄνδρα τῶν ε[ὖ]
γεγονότων ἀπὸ
10 προγόνων ἀρχικῶν
καὶ λειτουργῶν τε-
λευτήσαντα νέον
τὴν ἡλικίαν τὴν
δὲ ἀνάστασιν τοῦ
15 ἀνδριάντος ἐποι-
ήσατο Αὐρ(ηλία) Ἀμμία ἡ
μήτηρ αὐτοῦ ἀνα-
θεῖσα τῇ κρατίστ̣ῃ̣
βοῦλῃ εἰς αἰωνίους
20 διανομὰς ἀργύρι-
ον καθὼς διὰ τῆς ἀ-
ναθέσεως δη-
λοῦται

Diplomatic

[···....]
ΤΑΕ[......]ΕΝΑΥ
ΠΟΤ.[..].ΥΛΗΣΚΑΙ
ΤΟΥΔΗΜΟΥΜΑΡ.ΟΝ
5ΑΥΡΑΤΤΑΛΟΝΑΡΤΕ
ΜΙΔΩΡΟΥΠΕΝΤΑ.[..]
ΤΟΥΜΕΝΙΠΠΟΥΑΤ
ΤΑΛΟΥΑΝΔΡΑΤΩΝΕ[.]
ΓΕΓΟΝΟΤΩΝΑΠΟ
10ΠΡΟΓΟΝΩΝΑΡΧΙΚΩΝ
ΚΑΙΛΕΙΤΟΥΡΓΩΝΤΕ
ΛΕΥΤΗΣΑΝΤΑΝΕΟΝ
ΤΗΝΗΛΙΚΙΑΝΤΗΝ
ΔΕΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΝΤΟΥ
15ΑΝΔΡΙΑΝΤΟΣΕΠΟΙ
ΗΣΑΤΟΑΥΡΑΜΜΙΑΗ
ΜΗΤΗΡΑΥΤΟΥΑΝΑ
ΘΕΙΣΑΤΗΚΡΑΤΙΣ..
ΒΟΥΛΗΕΙΣΑΙΩΝΙΟΥΣ
20ΔΙΑΝΟΜΑΣΑΡΓΥΡΙ
ΟΝΚΑΘΩΣΔΙΑΤΗΣΑ
ΝΑΘΕΣΕΩΣΔΗ
ΛΟΥΤΑΙ

Apparatus

3: ΜΑΡΧΟΥ Deering Deering, 1812

English translation

Translation source: IAph2007

... according] to what was decreed by the Council and the People [?set up a statue of] Marcus Aurelius Attalos, son of Artemidoros, the fifth of the name from Artemidoros son of Menippos ?Attalos, of the well-born class from ancestors who held magistracies and liturgies. He died while still a young man. Aurelia Ammia his mother set up the statue having given to the most powerful Council to provide permanent distributions a sum of money as is specified in the document of gift.

German translation

Translation source:

(lines 13-23)... Die Aufstelling der Säule besorgte Aurelia Ammia, seine Mutter; sie weihte auch dem hochmächtigsten Rate für Spenden auf ewige Zeiten Geld, wie es durch die Widmingsurkunde kund gegeben wird.

Bibliography

Transcription: Deering, 1812 p.5v, no. 20

Publication: Leake, 1843 7, whence Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1609a , whence Laum, 1914 111 (lines 13-23), McCabe, PHI, 1996 253 , Smith, 2006 H.75 (listed); IAph2007 15.321.

Images

Fig. 1. Deering notebook, page 5v