IGII2 8398 Funerary trapeza of Gaius Poppaeus Attalos of Aphrodisias

Funerary trapeza of Gaius Poppaeus Attalos of Aphrodisias

IG II² 8398 Date: 1st century AD

Gaius Poppaeus Attalos son of Gaius Poppaeus Zenon of Aphrodisias.^[1]

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IG II² 8398 (Translated text) (PHI)

Translation by: Anna Scott

Images: Wikimedia Commons - (1)

Monument type: Table

Inscription type: Funerary

Findspot: Dipylou Street, northeast of the Kerameikos (Athens Ephoria ΚΤΛ)

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[1] This is a trapeza (or mensa), a large rectangular table-like monument found at Athens from the 4^th century BC onwards. It commemorates a Roman citizen from Aphrodisias in Caria (Turkey), Gaius Poppaeus Attalos. He and his father have names that follow standard Roman tria nomina with a praenomen (Gaius), nomen (Poppaeus), and a Greek cognomen (Attalos and Zenon respectively). This use of a Roman-style name with a Greek personal name as cognomen was a standard pattern for Greeks who received Roman citizenship (see Agora XV 272 with notes). This inscription was excavated along with a group of funerary monuments northeast of the Kerameikos archaeological site (see IG II² 5889 with notes). It was subsequently moved to the Kolonos Agoraios, west of the Agora, where unrelated fragments from the lid of a sarcophagus have been stacked on top of it.

Added: 24 Sep 2026
Updated: 24 Sep 2026
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