Description: Large sarcophagus,
w: 2.52 × h: 0.72 × d: 0.82; the face is decorated with straight fluting
between rather flat egg and dart ornament above, and simple moulding below; in the centre is a tabella ansata from
which an inscription has probably been erased.
Text:
Inscribed on the lower moulding.
Letters: 0.025-0.03; faint superscript bar above first numeral in line 3
Date: Second century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Bouleuterion/Odeon, West Area: 'W. Bou. Ch.4, Str.2'
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Interpretive
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ἀντίγραφον ἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου τὸ τέταρτον Κλ(αυδίου) Διογένους Δομετείνου ((stop)) φανερὸν ποιῶ καὶ διὰ ταύτης
τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ((stop)) ὅτι ((stop)) καταλέλοιπα δι'ἧς τέθειμαι διαθήκης τῇ γερουσίᾳ (δηνάρια) χείλια τὸ δὲ πόθεν δεῖ δοθῆναι
αὐτὰ δεδήλωκα διὰ τῆς διαθήκης πρὸς
τὸ ἐκδανεισθῆναι αὐτὰ ((stop)) καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ἀπ'αὐτῶν τόκου γείνεσθαι κλῆρον ὀνομάτω̣ν ((stop)) ρκ ((stop)) καὶ τοὺς λάχουσιν δίδοσθαι εἰς
τὸ ἡρῶόν μου ἀσσάρια ἐ̣ν̣νέα̣ φε ( vac. 1)
Diplomatic
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ΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟΝΑΠΕΤΕΘΗΕΙΣΤΟΧΡΕΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΝΕΠΙΣΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΥΤΟΤΕΤΑΡΤΟΝΚΛΔΙΟΓΕΝΟΥΣΔΟΜΕΤΕΙΝΟΥ • ΦΑΝΕΡΟΝΠΟΙΩΚΑΙΔΙΑΤΑΥΤΗΣ
ΤΗΣΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΗΣ • ΟΤΙ • ΚΑΤΑΛΕΛΟΙΠΑΔΙΗΣΤΕΘΕΙΜΑΙΔΙΑΘΗΚΗΣΤΗΓΕΡΟΥΣΙΑ 𐆖 ΧΕΙΛΙΑΤΟΔΕΠΟΘΕΝΔΕΙΔΟΘΗΝΑΙΑΥΤΑΔΕΔΗΛΩΚΑΔΙΑΤΗΣΔΙΑΘΗΚΗΣΠΡΟΣ
ΤΟΕΚΔΑΝΕΙΣΘΗΝΑΙΑΥΤΑ • ΚΑΙΕΚΤΟΥΑΠΑΥΤΩΝΤΟΚΟΥΓΕΙΝΕΣΘΑΙΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΝΟΜΑΤ.Ν • ΡΚ • ΚΑΙΤΟΥΣΛΑΧΟΥΣΙΝΔΙΔΟΣΘΑΙΕΙΣΤΟΗΡΩΟΝΜΟΥΑΣΣΑΡΙΑ..ΝΕ.ΦΕ
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
. . . ] a copy was deposited in the Property-archive when Claudius Diogenes Dometinus was stephanephoros for the fourth time.
I make it clear also in this inscription that in my will I have left 1000 denarii to the gerousia - the sources from which
this sum is to be given I have indicated in the will - with a view to their being lent out at interest, and from the resulting
interest on it used for a lottery for 120 named persons; and to the winners for the giving of 9 assaria at my heroon.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition in 1997
