Description:
White marble
sarcophagus front (w: 0.005 × h: 0.44 × d: 0.086-0.12) broken to left and right and moulded above.
Text: lines 1-3, inscribed on fasciae of moulding, line 4ff, on face.
Letters: 0.02
Date: Τhird century CE (lettering, nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
City, North-west: serving as a bridge over a stream just East of West wall
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1978)
Interpretive
[ἡ σορὸς?] ἐστιν Αὐρ((stop))ηλ((stop))ίας̣ Ἀ̣μμίας Δι̣ονυσ[ι c. 23]
[c. 5] εἰς ἣν σορὸν τεθάπται Αὐρ(ηλι-) Ὑάκινθ[c. 22]
[c. 5] Ἀ̣σκληπιόδοτος Μηνοδότου ὁ ἀνὴρ ἀ[υτῆς c. 22]
[c. 5 ὑ]ἰ̣οῦ καὶ Ἀσκληπιόδοτος ὁ ἕτερος υἱ[ὸς οὐδεις δὲ ἕτερος ἕξει ἐξου-]
5[σίαν ἐν]θ̣άψαι τινα ἢ ἐκθάψαι τῶν ἐ̣νγεγο[νότων? ἐπεὶ ὁ ποιήσας ἔστω ἀσεβὴς]
[καὶ τυ]μ̣βωρύχος καὶ προσαποτείσει τῷ ἱερωτά̣τῳ̣ [ταμείῳ ἀργυρίου (δηνάρια) ? ὧν το τρίτον εσται?]
[τοῦ ἐκ]δικήσαντος τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀπετέθ̣η ἀν[τίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφα-]
( vac. 11) νηφόρου τὸ β Ζήνων̣ο[ς] Π[c. 15]
Diplomatic
[......]ΕΣΤΙΝΑΥΡ • ΗΛ • ΙΑ..ΜΜΙΑΣΔ.ΟΝΥΣ[.·······················]
[·····]ΕΙΣΗΝΣΟΡΟΝΤΕΘΑΠΤΑΙΑΥΡΥΑΚΙΝΘ[······················]
[·····].ΣΚΛΗΠΙΟΔΟΤΟΣΜΗΝΟΔΟΤΟΥΟΑΝΗΡΑ[....······················]
[·····.].ΟΥΚΑΙΑΣΚΛΗΠΙΟΔΟΤΟΣΟΕΤΕΡΟΣΥΙ[........................-]
5[......].ΑΨΑΙΤΙΝΑΗΕΚΘΑΨΑΙΤΩΝ.ΝΓΕΓΟ[...........................]
[.....].ΒΩΡΥΧΟΣΚΑΙΠΡΟΣΑΠΟΤΕΙΣΕΙΤΩΙΕΡΩΤ.Τ.[..............................]
[.....]ΔΙΚΗΣΑΝΤΟΣΤΗΣΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΗΣΑΠΕΤΕ.ΗΑΝ[.................................-]
ΝΗΦΟΡΟΥΤΟΒΖΗΝΩ.Ο[.]Π[···············]
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
The sarcophagus belongs to Aurelia Ammia Dionysia ((or daughter of Dionysios)); in which sarcophagus there has been buried Aureli- Hyakinthos (or) Hyakinthis ((or) son/daughter of Hyakinthos) [ . . .? and will be buried ], Asklepiodotos son of Menodotos her husband [and . . . ? their]
son and Asklepiodotos their second son, [and no-one else shall have the right to] bury anyone [in it] or to remove a body
from those buried in it, [since anyone who has done so is to be considered sacrilegious and a] tomb-breaker and in addition
shall pay to the sacred [treasury ? silver denarii of which one third shall belong to the] prosecutor; [a copy] of the inscription
was deposited [in the civic property-archive] in the second stephanephorate of Zenon [?son of] P[- . . .
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 77.139.
