Funerary formula from sarcophagus
created: Transcription (Reynolds)
source date: Probably second to early third centuries
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[...]νποανει[...]ιερασ[...]Ο ἐσομένων ἐν ᾗ σορῷ κηδευθήσεται αὐτὸς [...] οὐδε νὶ δὲ ἔξεσ ται ἀπαλλο τριῶσαι το ῦτο τὸ ἡρῶον ἢ μέρ ος τι ἀπ' α ὐτοῦ οὐ τὲ διὰ συνχωρή σεως οὐτὲ δι' ἑτέρας τι νος οἰκονομίας τρό πῳ οὐδ ενὶ οὐδ ὲ ἐκθάψαι τινὰ τ ῶν ἐν ταφησο μένων ἔσ τω ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπ άρατος καὶ τυμ βορύχο ς καὶ προσἀποτε ι σάτω ἱερὰ θεᾷ Ἀφροδείτῃ εἰς τειμὰς τῶν Σεβαστῶν δηνάρια ͵Ϛ καὶ οὐδὲν ἥττον μένει πᾶν τὸ ἡρῶον τοῦ γένους ἀνεξαλλοτριωτὸν εἰς τὸν ἅπαντα χρόνον τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀπέτεθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλακιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Ὑψικλέους τοῦ Κάστορος [...]

- - - ] in which sarcophagus he himself [name] shall be buried but no one shall have the right to alienate this heroon (tomb) nor any part of it either by concession or by any other procedure in any way, nor to remove anyone of those who shall be buried in it; for (whoever does so) is to be (considered) sacrilegious and accursed and a tomb-breaker and [in addition] is to pay 6000 denarii (to be) sacred to the goddess Aphrodite, with a view to (erection of) statues of the Augusti; and none the less the whole heroon of the family will remain unalienated for all time. A copy of the inscribed text was deposited in the civic archive in the stephanephorate of Hypsicles son of Castor [in the month ...]

[...] 73.266

[...] 100, whence [...] 57.1016; [...] 2.309, whence [...] p.349, note 14, whence [...] 62.823