Funerary inscription for Aurelia Menandris
created: Preliminary transcription (Reynolds).
source date: Second to third centuries CE
language: en; grc; grc-Latn
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[...]ακι [...]χ ὁ υἱὸς [...]φ [...] να περὶ αὐτὰ δικαίῳ παντὶ Αὐρηλίας Μενανδρίδος τῆς Μενάνδρου τοῦ Μολόσσου τοῦ Μολόσσου τοῦ Διογένους ἐν ᾗ σορῷ κεκήδευται Αὐρήλιος Φιλόκαπος Φιλοκάπου τοῦ Κορύμβου ἀνὴρ αὐτῆς κηδευθήσεται δὲ ἥ τε Μενανδρὶς καὶ Φιλόκαπος τρὶς τοῦ Κορύμβου ὁ υἱὸς αὐτῶν ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ἢ ἐνθάψαι τινὰ ἐν τῇ σορῷ ἢ ἐκθάψαι τῶν ἐν αὐτῇ ἐπεὶ ὁ τοιοῦτό τι ποιήσας ἔστω ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπάρατος καὶ τυμβωρύχος καὶ προσαποτεισάτω θεᾷ Ἀφροδείτῃ καὶ εἰς τειμὰς τῶν Σεβαστῶν δηνάρια [...]σμ ὧν τὸν τρίτον ἔστω τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος ἐν δὲ ταῖς προειρημέναις εἰσώσταις δύο ταφήσονται οὓς ἂν Μενανδρὶς βουληθῇ ἢ διατάξηται τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεωφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου τὸ ζ λα Κλαυδίου Διογένους μηνὸς Γορπιαίου

... belongs] with all the legal rights pertaining to it to Aurelia Menandris, daughter of Menandros, son of Molossos, son of Molossos, son of Diogenes; in which sarcophagus has been buried Aurelius Philokapos, son of Philokapos, son of Korymbos, her husband. And there shall also be buried there both Menandris herself and Philokapos III son of Philokapos son of Philokapos, son of Korymbos, their son. But no one else shall have the authority either to bury anyone in the sarcophagus or to exhume those within it, Since anyone who does such a thing, let him be considered impious, accursed, and a tomb-robber, and let him pay in addition to the Goddess Aphrodite and for honours statues of the Emperors [ . . . ] denarii, of which one third shall belong to the legal prosecutor. In the aforementioned two niches (eisostai) shall be buried whomever Menandris wishes or ordains. A copy of this inscription was deposited in the property archive (chreophylakion) during the 7th term as stephanephoros of Claudius Diogenes, in the month of Gorpiaios.

For lines 9-10 Reinach (l.c.) suggests L. A[n]. Cl. Diogenes (sc. Dometeinos). discussed by Reinach p.262, on no. 155 ()

[...] 21, whence [...] 32

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