https://roman-gardens.github.io/test-drafts/place/asia/attouda/Recent content in Attouda on Gardens of the Roman EmpireHugoen-usSun, 21 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://roman-gardens.github.io/test-drafts/place/asia/attouda/attouda_tomb_garden_of_papias_son_of_adrastos/Wed, 21 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000https://roman-gardens.github.io/test-drafts/place/asia/attouda/attouda_tomb_garden_of_papias_son_of_adrastos/<h2 id="dates">Dates</h2> <p>2nd century BC</p> <h2 id="garden-description">Garden Description</h2> <p>A marble slab found immured in a house wall at Hisarköy (Attouda) in Caria near the border with Phrygia records an <em>epitaph</em> set up by Papias, the son of Adrastos, grandson of Zeuxis, great grandson of Kounbarion, for himself and his heirs and sets aside a plot of unencumbered land six cubits square around it, from which it was permitted to derive revenue ([t&quot;] mnhme€ƒ periÒria [di]°[ye]to pÆxiw ©<j> é[ne]pikvlut€, nomØn ka‹ karpe€an énepikvlut€). The modest size of the allotment (less than ten m2) suggests that the productive plot was probably a garden.</p> <!-- ## Maps --> <!-- ## Plans <figure> <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/roman-gardens/gre-images/main/content/place/asia/attouda/blankenheim-hulchrath-plan1-EUR_GI_BlaHul_Rv_carroll.jpg" alt="" onclick="fullscreen(this)"> <figcaption> Plan of the excavations at Aphrodisias</figcaption> </figure> --> <!-- ## Images --> <h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2> <ul> <li><em>Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiquae</em>. Manchester and London, 1928-1993, VI, 83. <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4341001">(worldcat)</a></li> <li>J. Kubin'ska, <em>Les monuments funéraires dans les inscriptions grecques de l'Asie Mineure</em>. Warsaw, 1968, p. 145. <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/title/164233326">(worldcat)</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="keywords">Keywords</h2> <ul> <li> <a href="https://roman-gardens.github.io/test-drafts/search/?q=marble">marble (rock)</a><a target="_blank" href="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300011443" title="Art and Architecture Thesaurus (Getty)">AAT:300011443</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://roman-gardens.github.io/test-drafts/search/?q=epitaphs">epitaphs</a><a target="_blank" href="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300028729" title="Art and Architecture Thesaurus (Getty)">AAT:300028729</a> </li> </ul> <h2 id="places">Places</h2> <ul> <li> <a href="https://roman-gardens.github.io/test-drafts/search/?q=Attouda">Attouda</a> <a target="_blank" href="https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/638779" title="Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places">Pleiades: 638779</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://roman-gardens.github.io/test-drafts/search/?q=Caria%20%28former%20nation%2fstate%2fempire%29">Caria (former nation/state/empire)</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7002358" title="Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Getty)">TGN: 7002358</a> </li> </ul>