Description: Two joining fragments of a panel or sarcophagus front (together w: 0.60 × h: 0.34 × d: 0.10) with back surviving but no edges.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.022
Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: a stray find in Theatre;
b found on north slope of Acropolis.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum
Interpretive
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[---]ΑΥ[---]
[--- Μένα]νδρος [---]
[--- Φα]υ̣στείνης [---]
[--- τῶ]ν̣ τέκνων α̣[ὐτῶν? ---]
5[---] μόνος ἕτερος̣ δ[ὲ οὐ]δεὶς ΕΙ[---]
[---] Παπίου οὐχ ἕξει δὲ οὐδε[---]
[---] ψηφίσματος ὀνόματι οὐδ[ε---]
[---]ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ μόνου ΕΙΝΕ̣[---]
[---ὁ ἐναν]τ̣ί̣ον τι ποιήσας ἢ ἐν[θάψας---]
10[---ἀρ]γ̣υρίου (δηνάρια) μοίρια ( vac. 1) [---]
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Diplomatic
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[---]ΑΥ[---]
[---....]ΝΔΡΟΣ[---]
[---..].ΣΤΕΙΝΗΣ[---]
[---..].ΤΕΚΝΩΝ.[....---]
5[---]ΜΟΝΟΣΕΤΕΡΟ.Δ[...]ΔΕΙΣΕΙ[---]
[---]ΠΑΠΙΟΥΟΥΧΕΞΕΙΔΕΟΥΔΕ[---]
[---]ΨΗΦΙΣΜΑΤΟΣΟΝΟΜΑΤΙΟΥΔ[.---]
[---]ΟΥΙΟΣΑΥΤΟΥΜΟΝΟΥΕΙΝ.[---]
[---.....]..ΟΝΤΙΠΟΙΗΣΑΣΗΕΝ[.....---]
10[---..].ΥΡΙΟΥ 𐆖 ΜΟΙΡΙΑ [---]
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English translation
Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché
. . . Menandros [ ... and] of Faustina [... and] of their children [... he] alone, and no one else [? except . . . son of]
Papias shall not have [the right] either [ through . . . or through] the name of a decree, nor [ ... ?except] the son of him
alone [... anyone who acts contrary (scil. to this) or buries [someone else here . . . shall pay] 10,000 silver denarii [..."
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition a: 69.28, b: 71.445
