Funerary inscription for Aurelia Ammia
created: Transcription (Reynolds)
source date: Τhird century CE
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ἡ σορὸς ἐστιν Αὐρηλίας Ἀμμίας Διονυσι [...] [...] εἰς ἣν σορὸν τεθάπται Αὐρηλι- Ὑάκινθ[...] [...] Ἀσκληπιόδοτος Μηνοδότου ὁ ἀνὴρ ἀυτῆς [...] [...] ὑἰοῦ καὶ Ἀσκληπιόδοτος ὁ ἕτερος υἱὸς οὐδεις δὲ ἕτερος ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ἐνθάψαι τινα ἢ ἐκθάψαι τῶν ἐνγεγονότων ἐπεὶ ὁ ποιήσας ἔστω ἀσεβὴς καὶ τυμβωρύχος καὶ προσαποτείσει τῷ ἱερωτάτῳ ταμείῳ ἀργυρίου δηνάρια ? ὧν το τρίτον εσται τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου τὸ β Ζήνωνος Π[...]

The sarcophagus belongs to Aurelia Ammia Dionysia ([^1]); in which sarcophagus there has been buried Aureli- Hyakinthos[^2] Hyakinthis ([^3] 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[- . . .

[^1: or daughter of Dionysios]

[^2: or]

[^3: or]

[...] 77.139.