Epitaph for Aurelia Meltine
created: Transcription (Reynolds)
source date: Second to third centuries CE
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[...] καθ' οὗ ἐπικεῖνται καὶ τὰ περὶ αὐτὰ δίκαια εἰσιν [...] Αὐρηλίας Μελτίνης τῆς Διονυσίου τοῦ Διονυσίου εἰς ἣν κεκήδευνται Αὐρήλιος Καρμίνιος Ζώσιμος ὁ γενάμενος ἀνὴρ Μελτίνης καὶ Αὐρήλιος Καρμίνιος Ἄδραστος ὁ γενάμενος υἱὸς τοῦ Ζωσίμου καὶ τῆς Μελτίνης κηδευθήσεται δὲ καὶ Αὐρηλία Μελτίνη ἡ προγεγραμμένη ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐξουσίαν τινα ἐνθάψαι ἢ ἐκθάψαι ἐὰν μὴ Μελτίνη [...] ἢ οὓς ἂν ἢ ὃν ἂν συνχωρήσῃ ἢ διατάξηται [...] ἔστω ὁ τοῦτο τολμήσας ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπάρατος τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀντίγραφον ἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου [...] Διογένους τὸ Ϛ μηνὸς Γορπίηου

[ . . .] on which they lie and the entitlements around them [?belong to Aure]lia Meltine the daughter of Dionysios the son of Dionysios [ . . . in which have been buried] Aurelius Carminius Zosimos, who was the husband of [Meltine and Aurelius Car]minius Adrastos who was the son of Zosimos [ and of Melti]ne; and the aforementioned. Aurelia Meltine will be buried. No one else shall have the right to bury a body in it or to remove one from it, apart from Meltine or anyone to whom she may give permission or instructions, [since whoever so acts] is to be considered sacrilegious, accursed and a tomb-robber. A copy [of the inscribed text] was deposited in the civic archive in the 6th [stephanephorate] of Diogenes, month Gorpiaios.

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