Description:
White marble fragment with back but no edges, perhaps from a sarcophagus front (w: 0.49 × h: 0.16 × d: 0.095).
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.02
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
City, Village: 'immeuble aux escaliers de marbre' (Gaudin);
found during excavation of the Place of Palms/South Agora (NYU)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
Interpretive
[ἔ]στω [ἀσεβὴ]ς καὶ ἐπάρατο[ς] καὶ τυμβωρύ[χος καὶ πρ]οσαπο[τεισάτω εἰς τὸν φίσκον τοῦ]
κυρίου δηνάρια π[ε]ντ[α]κισχ[ε]ίλια ἀπὸ ὧν ἔστω τὸ τρίτον τοῦ ἐ̣γ̣δ[ι]κήσα[ντ]ος ταύτ[ης] τ[ῆς] ἐ[πι-]
γραφῆϲ ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον ἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον [ἐπὶ] στεφανηφόρου [τ]ὸ τ[ρί]τον Τίτου Φλαβί[ου] Χαι
( vac. 8)ρέου μηνὸ[ς] Πα[νήμου?]
5( vac. 1 line)
Diplomatic
[.]ΣΤΩ[.....]ΣΚΑΙΕΠΑΡΑΤΟ[.]ΚΑΙΤΥΜΒΩΡΥ[........]ΟΣΑΠΟ[......................]
ΚΥΡΙΟΥΔΗΝΑΡΙΑΠ[.]ΝΤ[.]ΚΙΣΧ[.]ΙΛΙΑΑΠΟΩΝΕΣΤΩΤΟΤΡΙΤΟΝΤΟΥ..Δ[.]ΚΗΣΑ[..]ΟΣΤΑΥΤ[..]Τ[..]Ε[..-]
ΓΡΑΦΗϹΑΠΕΤΕΘΗΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟΝΙΣΤΟΧΡΕΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΝ[...]ΣΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΥ[.]ΟΤ[..]ΤΟΝΤΙΤΟΥΦΛΑΒΙ[..]ΧΑΙ
ΡΕΟΥΜΗΝΟ[.]ΠΑ[.....]
5 vacat
Apparatus
Readings by earlier copyists underlined.
2: [ἐ]γδ Reinach, 1906
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
. . whoever acts contrary to these instructions] is to be (scil. considered) impious and accursed and a tomb-breaker and in addition is to pay to the treasury of the Lord (i.e. the emperor)
five thousand denarii, of which a third is to belong to the prosecutor. A copy of this inscription was deposited in the Property-Archive
in the third stephanephorate of Titus Flavius Chaireas.in the month Pa[nemos?]
Bibliography
Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893, K.III.42, a and b; Gaudin, 1904, 125; New York University expedition in 1975, fragment from the right end 75.136
Publication: Reinach, 1906 179 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 556 ; IAph2007 11.19.
