Funerary inscription for Neikopolis and her children
created: Transcription (Reynolds); publication
source date: Third quarter of the third century CE
language: en; grc; la
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[...] αγισηαυ[...] [...]ς Νεικοπόλεως αὐτεξουσίου γε[...]ι τέκνων εἰς ἣν αὐτὴ ταφήσεται μόνη μηδενὸς ἔχοντος ἑτέρου ἐξουσίαν ἐνθάψαι τινὰ ἐπεὶ ὁ ἐπιχειρήσας καὶ ἐνθάψας ἀποτείσει τῷ ἱερωτάτῳ ταμείῳ δηνάρια [...] χείλια ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἔσται τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος

[^a1: at 1: omitted [; perhaps ἡ αὐτοῦ γύνη]]

[^a2: at 3: [νομένου κα]ὶ [but a woman is being described and in any case this gives too long a line]]

[^a3: at 5: [σορὸν αὐτ]ὴ [which gives too long a line]]

[? The sarcophagus belongs to - - -] Neikopolis who is sui iuris [?having the ius] liberorum (alternatively [ . ? . and her] children). In it she alone shall be buried, no one else having the right to bury anyone [in it], since [whoever undertakes that] and [buries in it] will pay to [the most sacred] treasury at Rome [ . ? . ] thousand [denarii] of which [a third] shall belong to the [prosecutor].

[...]; [...] before 1966

[...] 542 , whence [...] 543 (both omitting line 1); [...] 155 ; [...] 11.413.