Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

11.27. Funerary formula, second to third cent.

Description: Fragment of right side and perhaps lower right corner of a white marble base of a sarcophagus front (w: 0.17 × h: 0.09 × d: 0.075).

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: Probably second to third centuries C.E.; 0.018. Star for denarius, line 3; / before the figure.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, stray find in Village

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[------]
[--- Διον?]υσ̣ίου Το[---]
[--- ἕτερος δ]ὲ οὐδεὶς
[ἕξει ἐξουσίαν τῷ ταμε]ίῳ (δηνάρια) ͵α ὧν
(i.e. τό τριτόν μέρος ἔσται τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος) [---]

Diplomatic

[------]
[---....]Υ.ΙΟΥΤΟ[---]
[---.......]ΕΟΥΔΕΙΣ
[..................]ΙΩ 𐆖 ͵ΑΩΝ
(i.e. ΤΟΤΡΙΤΟΝΜΕΡΟΣΕΣΤΑΙΤΟΥΕΚΔΙΚΗΣΑΝΤΟΣ)[---]

Translation

[---] of [Dion?]ysios Το[---] and no-one [else shall have the right to bury anyone here ---] since whoever acts contrary to this provision [---] shall pay to the most sacred (scil. Roman) treasury one thousand denarii of which (i.e. a third shall go to the procurator) [ . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 64.553

Publication: IAph2007 11.27.

Images

Fig. 1. 11.218, 11.27, 2.548 (E. Alföldi-Rosenbaum, 1966)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)


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