Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

11.311. Funerary fragment

Description: Three adjoining white marble fragments from a panel (w: 0.39 × h: 0.18 × d: 0.075).

Text: Inscribed on one face.

Letters: Standard second to third centuries CE forms; 0.024, not quite even in height

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: City, South-east: MA, Depot trench

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1994)

Interpretive

[---]Κ̣Ε̣Ι̣Ο̣Ι̣[---]
[--- ὁ δὲ τοῦ]το πράξας ἔστω [ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπαρατος καὶ]
[τυμβωρύχος καὶ ἀποτεισά]τω τῷ ἱερωτάτῳ τ[αμείῳ ---]
[ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἔσται τ]οῦ ἐκδικήσαντο̣[ς ταύτης τῆς ἐπιγράφης ἀντίγραφον]
5 [ ἀπέτεθη εἰς τὸ χρεοφ]υλάκιον ἐπὶ στε̣[φανηφόρου ---]
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Diplomatic

[---].....[---]
[---......]ΤΟΠΡΑΞΑΣΕΣΤΩ[....................]
[.....................]ΤΩΤΩΙΕΡΩΤΑΤΩΤ[.....---]
[................]ΟΥΕΚΔΙΚΗΣΑΝΤ.[.............................]
5[.................]ΥΛΑΚΙΟΝΕΠΙΣΤ.[.........---]
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English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

. . . whover] has done this is to be [considered impious and accursed and a tomb-breaker and must pay] to the most sacred (i.e. Roman) [treasury (amount of fine) of which one third is to belong to] the prosecutor. [A copy of this inscription was filed in the] Property Archive in the year of the ste[phanephoros (name lost) . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition, 93.9, 93.32, I 93.10

Images

Fig. 1. Fragments 1, 2 and 3 together (M. Roueché, 1994)

Fig. 2. Fragments 1 and 2 (M. Roueché, 1994)

Fig. 3. Fragments 1 and 2 (M. Roueché, 1994)

Fig. 4. Fragment 1 (M. Roueché, 1994)

Fig. 5. Fragment 1 (M. Roueché, 1994)

Fig. 6. Fragment 3 (M. Roueché, 1994)

Fig. 7. Fragment 3 (M. Roueché, 1994)