Description: Upper left part of a white marble panel, probably the side of a sarcophagus (w: 1.17 × h: 0.695 × d: 0.17).
Text:
Inscribed on one face, line 2 ff. within a moulded panel (w: 1.07 × h: 0.56),
and, line 1, on its upper border (w: 0.94 × h: 0.04) which is chipped at the upper left corner. The upper end was re-cut in
the Byzantine period, with elaborate patterns, and painted.
Letters: 0.03.es
Date: Second century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: re-used in the structure of
the Temple/Church
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot
Interpretive
[τὸ ἡρῶο]ν καὶ ἡ ἐπ'αὐτῷ σορὸς ἐστὶν Ἀνδρονείκου τοῦ̣ [...]
ὁ υἱὸς Ἀνδρονείκου καὶ κηδευθήσεται Ἀνδρό[νεικος αὐτὸς καὶ Ἀμμία]
Μενάνδρου ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ οὐδεὶς δὲ ἕτερος ἕξε̣[ι ἐξουσίαν c. 10]
Ἀνδρόνεικον καὶ Ἀμμίαν ἢ ἐνθάψαι τινα ἢ παραχ[ωρεῖν c. 14]
5σοροῦ ἢ τοῦ ἡρώου οἰκονομῆσαι ἐπεὶ ὁ τῶν προγε[γραμμένων τι τολμησας ἐσ-]
ται ἐπάρατος καὶ ἀσεβὴς καὶ τυμβωρύχος καὶ ἀποτε̣[ίσει c. 15]
ὧν τὸ τρίτον γενήσεται τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος ἐν δ[ὲ c. 16 Διο-]
νύσιος Ἀθηναγόρου τοῦ Τειμοκράτους καὶ Πόπλειος[c. 13 ἕτερος]
δὲ οὐδεὶς ἐν δὲ τῷ ὑποκειμένῳ πλάτᾳ ταφήσονται ΟΙ[c. 20]
10ΗΣ εἰσώστης καὶ τοῦ πλάτα οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐξουσίαν οὐδ[ὲ c. 16 ἤ ἀλ-]
λοτριώσει αὐτῶν ἐπεὶ ὁ ἐπιχειρήσας τι ποιῆσαι γενήσε[ται c. 17]
ΜΟΙΣ ταύτης τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀπέθεμην ἀντίγραφον [εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου]
Κλαυδίου Μενάνδρου Ἀκυλείνου ἡρῶος μηνὸς Λώου Α[...]
Diplomatic
[......]ΝΚΑΙΗΕΠΑΥΤΩΣΟΡΟΣΕΣΤΙΝΑΝΔΡΟΝΕΙΚΟΥΤΟ.[···]
ΟΥΙΟΣΑΝΔΡΟΝΕΙΚΟΥΚΑΙΚΗΔΕΥΘΗΣΕΤΑΙΑΝΔΡΟ[...................]
ΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥΗΓΥΝΗΑΥΤΟΥΟΥΔΕΙΣΔΕΕΤΕΡΟΣΕΞ.[.........··········]
ΑΝΔΡΟΝΕΙΚΟΝΚΑΙΑΜΜΙΑΝΗΕΝΘΑΨΑΙΤΙΝΑΗΠΑΡΑΧ[.....··············]
5ΣΟΡΟΥΗΤΟΥΗΡΩΟΥΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΗΣΑΙΕΠΕΙΟΤΩΝΠΡΟΓΕ[.....................-]
ΤΑΙΕΠΑΡΑΤΟΣΚΑΙΑΣΕΒΗΣΚΑΙΤΥΜΒΩΡΥΧΟΣΚΑΙΑΠΟΤ.[....···············]
ΩΝΤΟΤΡΙΤΟΝΓΕΝΗΣΕΤΑΙΤΟΥΕΚΔΙΚΗΣΑΝΤΟΣΕΝΔ[.················...-]
ΝΥΣΙΟΣΑΘΗΝΑΓΟΡΟΥΤΟΥΤΕΙΜΟΚΡΑΤΟΥΣΚΑΙΠΟΠΛΕΙΟΣ[·············......]
ΔΕΟΥΔΕΙΣΕΝΔΕΤΩΥΠΟΚΕΙΜΕΝΩΠΛΑΤΑΤΑΦΗΣΟΝΤΑΙΟΙ[····················]
10ΗΣΕΙΣΩΣΤΗΣΚΑΙΤΟΥΠΛΑΤΑΟΥΔΕΙΣΕΞΕΙΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΝΟΥΔ[.················...-]
ΛΟΤΡΙΩΣΕΙΑΥΤΩΝΕΠΕΙΟΕΠΙΧΕΙΡΗΣΑΣΤΙΠΟΙΗΣΑΙΓΕΝΗΣΕ[...·················]
ΜΟΙΣΤΑΥΤΗΣΤΗΣΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΗΣΑΠΕΘΕΜΗΝΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟΝ[................................]
ΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥΜΕΝΑΝΔΡΟΥΑΚΥΛΕΙΝΟΥΗΡΩΟΣΜΗΝΟΣΛΩΟΥΑ[···]
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
[The memorial] and the sarcophagus on it belong to Andronikos [ . . . In it has been buried x ] the son of Andronikos, and
there shall be buried in it Andronikos [himself and Ammia] daughter of Menandros, his wife; and no-one other than Andronikos
and Ammia shall have [the right either to . . . ] or to bury in it or to concede [ it to anyone] or to regulate [the use of
] the sarcophagus or the memorial, since he who [dares any of the afore[mentioned actions] shall be (scil. considered) accursed and impious and a tomb-robber and shall pay [to ? a sum of ? ] of which a third shall belong to the
prosecutor. And in [? the lower area shall be buried] Dionysios the som of Athenagoras the son of Timokrates and Poplios [son
of ?] but no-one [else]; and in the underlying platform shall be buried Oi[- . . . ? of the subsidiary] burial chamber and
of the platform no-one shall have thr right either [ . . . or] to alienate (?any part) of them, since whoever has undertaken
to do so shall be (scil. considered) [accursed and impious ? . . . ]. I placed a copy of this inscription [in the Property-archive in the stephanephorate
of] the late Claudius Menandros Aquileinos in the month Loios [ . . . ]
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Temple 1
