Funerary inscription for Androneikos
created: Transcription (Reynolds)
source date: Second century CE
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τὸ ἡρῶον καὶ ἡ ἐπ' αὐτῷ σορὸς ἐστὶν Ἀνδρονείκου τοῦ [...] ὁ υἱὸς Ἀνδρονείκου καὶ κηδευθήσεται Ἀνδρόνεικος αὐτὸς καὶ Ἀμμία Μενάνδρου ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ οὐδεὶς δὲ ἕτερος ἕξει ἐξουσίαν [...] Ἀνδρόνεικον καὶ Ἀμμίαν ἢ ἐνθάψαι τινα ἢ παραχωρεῖν [...] σοροῦ ἢ τοῦ ἡρώου οἰκονομῆσαι ἐπεὶ ὁ τῶν προγεγραμμένων τι τολμησας ἐσται ἐπάρατος καὶ ἀσεβὴς καὶ τυμβωρύχος καὶ ἀποτείσει [...] ὧν τὸ τρίτον γενήσεται τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος ἐν δὲ [...] Διονύσιος Ἀθηναγόρου τοῦ Τειμοκράτους καὶ Πόπλειος[...] ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἐν δὲ τῷ ὑποκειμένῳ πλάτᾳ ταφήσονται ΟΙ[...] ησ εἰσώστης καὶ τοῦ πλάτα οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐξουσίαν οὐδὲ [...] ἤ ἀλλοτριώσει αὐτῶν ἐπεὶ ὁ ἐπιχειρήσας τι ποιῆσαι γενήσεται [...] μοισ ταύτης τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀπέθεμην ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Κλαυδίου Μενάνδρου Ἀκυλείνου ἡρῶος μηνὸς Λώου α[...]

[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 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 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 [ . . . ]

[...] Temple 1