Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

4.128. Funerary fragment

Description: Fragment of a white marble panel with upper edge, chipped, and left side surviving (w: 0.66 × h: 0.34 × d: 0.15).

Text: Inscribed on the face, which probably had a narrow raised margin.

Letters: Standard second to third century forms: 0.023

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Place of Palms/South Agora, Pool: during excavation, E.50

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

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[---]Ι̣Ι̣Ν[---]Ρ̣ΑΤ̣Ι̣[.]ΑΛΛΙ̣Ε̣ΑΡΓ̣[.]Ο[---]
[---]Ἀρτεμι̣δώρου καὶ Τυχικοῦ τοῦ Ἀτ[τάλου? ---]
[---] παρεχώρησε̣ν̣ Τ [.]ΑΤ̣[---]
[Τιβ]ε̣ρ̣ίου Κλαυδίου Φρ̣α̣[---]
5[---]ο̣ς Σύρος εἰς ἣν κ̣ηδ̣[ευ ---]
[---] οἱ κληρονόμοι ΕΣ̣[---]
[--- ἕξ]ει ἐξουσίαν ἐ̣[νθάψαι ---]
[---] ἢ ἐκθάψι̣ τ̣[ινα ---]
[--- ἐπεὶ] ὁ παρὰ τα[ῦτα ποιῆσας? ---]
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Diplomatic

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[---]..Ν[---].Α..[·]ΑΛΛ..ΑΡ.[·]Ο[---]
[---]ΑΡΤΕΜ.ΔΩΡΟΥΚΑΙΤΥΧΙΚΟΥΤΟΥΑΤ[.....---]
[---]ΠΑΡΕΧΩΡΗΣ..Τ[·]Α.[---]
[...]..ΙΟΥΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥΦ..[---]
5[---].ΣΣΥΡΟΣΕΙΣΗΝ.Η.[..---]
[---]ΟΙΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΟΙΕ.[---]
[---..]ΕΙΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΝ.[......---]
[---]ΗΕΚΘΑΨ..[...---]
[---....]ΟΠΑΡΑΤΑ[..........---]
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Apparatus

4: At end perhaps ΦΙΛ

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

. . . ?child] of Artemidoros and of Tychikos son of ?Attalos [ . . .] conceded [ . . .] of Tiberius Claudius Phra[- . . . -]os Syrus (? a Syrian) in which [?shall be buried . . .] the heirs ?shall be [ . . . x] will have the right [to bury in it . . .] or to remove [a body . . .] since whoever [acts] contrary to these [provisions . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 90.d.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1990)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1990)

Fig. 3. Face (M. Roueché, 1991)

Fig. 4. Face (M. Roueché, 1991)