Description:
White marble
block (w: 1.37 × h: 0.60 × d: 1.37) complete on all sides.
Text: i: inscribed at the left side of the stone, and must have continued from an adjacent block;
ii: inscribed to the right and must have continued onto the next block. Both texts must have begun on upper blocks.
Letters: i: 0.02-0.025; ii: 0.02-0.025.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls, North stretch: at the west end of the Stadium
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1973)
Interpretive
i
[c. 14]Κ̣ΑΠ̣ΕΘΕΝ̣Τ̣Α κατὰ τὰς δοθείσας
[αὐτῷ ὑπὸ c. 10 τετράκ]ι τοῦ Ὑψικλέους τῶν τόπων συνχω-
[ρήσεις διὰ τοῦ χρεοφυλακίο]υ ὧν ἐν μὲν τῇ σορῷ τέθαπται Ἀρισ-
[τοκλῆς Ἀριστοκλέους τοῦ] Ζήνωνος τοῦ Θεαιτήτου ὁ υἱὸς αὐ-
5[τοῦ ταφήσονται δὲ Ἀρι]στοκλῆς ὁ καὶ Ζήνων καὶ Ἄπφιον Ἀ-
[c. 15 τοῦ] Ἡρώδου ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ ἐν δὲ ταῖς
[εἰσώσταις ταφήσονται Μέ]νιππός τε Ἀριστοκλέους τοῦ Ζή-
[νωνος τοῦ Θεαιτήτου] καὶ οὓς ἂν Ζήνων ὁ καὶ Ἀριστοκλῆς
[καὶ Μένιππος ὁ] [προδ]ηλούμενος βουληθῶσιν ((leaf))
10[ταύτης τῆς ἐπιγραφῆ]ς ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ
[ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στε]φανηφόρου τὸ δ Τι(βερίου) Κλ(αυδίου) Ὑψικλέ-
[ους c. 14 μ]ηνὸς Ἰουλιήου ((scroll)) ( vac. ) ii
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τ̣οῦ Γ̣ορτ̣υνίου τ̣ο̣ῦ̣ Ἀ̣ρ̣ι̣σ̣τ̣οκ[λέους c. 12]
ἤθει καὶ σεμνότητι βίου ὑπε[ρβεβληκὼς πρὸ ὥρας ἄρτι ]
τετελεύτηκεν προσήκει δ[ὲ τοὺς συνγενεῖς τῶν? τετε-]
λευτηκότων παραμυθεῖσθαι̣ [c. 20]
5 φιλτάτων ἀποβολῆς ((stop)) διὰ ταῦτ̣[α δεδόχθαι τετειμῆσ-]
θαι μὲν καὶ μετηλλακχότα τα[ῖς πρώταις τειμαῖς Ἀριστο-]
κ<λέ>α Ἀριστοκλέους τοῦ Ζήνω̣[νος τοῦ Θεαιτήτου παραμυ-]
θήσασθαι δὲ τὸν πατέρα αὐ̣τ[οῦ Ἀριστοκλέα ἐπὶ ταῖς]
τῆς τύχης συμφοραῖς ταῖς τελ[εσθείσαις?]
10 Γονεὺς Μητροδόρου τοῦ Γο[νέως πρῶτος ἄρχων]
Μ(ᾶρκος) Ἰούλιος Πύρρου γραμμα̣[τεὺς δήμου .]
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Diplomatic
i
[··············].Α.ΕΘΕ..ΑΚΑΤΑΤΑΣΔΟΘΕΙΣΑΣ
[.......··········......]ΙΤΟΥΥΨΙΚΛΕΟΥΣΤΩΝΤΟΠΩΝΣΥΝΧΩ
[.......................]ΥΩΝΕΝΜΕΝΤΗΣΟΡΩΤΕΘΑΠΤΑΙΑΡΙΣ
[.....................]ΖΗΝΩΝΟΣΤΟΥΘΕΑΙΤΗΤΟΥΟΥΙΟΣΑΥ
5[..................]ΣΤΟΚΛΗΣΟΚΑΙΖΗΝΩΝΚΑΙΑΠΦΙΟΝΑ
[···············...]ΗΡΩΔΟΥΗΓΥΝΗΑΥΤΟΥΕΝΔΕΤΑΙΣ
[.....................]ΝΙΠΠΟΣΤΕΑΡΙΣΤΟΚΛΕΟΥΣΤΟΥΖΗ
[.................]ΚΑΙΟΥΣΑΝΖΗΝΩΝΟΚΑΙΑΡΙΣΤΟΚΛΗΣ
[............][....]ΗΛΟΥΜΕΝΟΣΒΟΥΛΗΘΩΣΙΝ ❦
10[.................]ΣΑΠΕΤΕΘΗΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟΝΕΙΣΤΟ
[..................]ΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΥΤΟΔΤΙΚΛΥΨΙΚΛΕ
[...··············.]ΗΝΟΣΙΟΥΛΙΗΟΥ ii
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.ΟΥ.ΟΡ.ΥΝΙΟΥ........ΟΚ[.....············]
ΗΘΕΙΚΑΙΣΕΜΝΟΤΗΤΙΒΙΟΥΥΠΕ[....................]
ΤΕΤΕΛΕΥΤΗΚΕΝΠΡΟΣΗΚΕΙΔ[.....................-]
ΛΕΥΤΗΚΟΤΩΝΠΑΡΑΜΥΘΕΙΣΘΑ.[····················]
5ΦΙΛΤΑΤΩΝΑΠΟΒΟΛΗΣ • ΔΙΑΤΑΥ.[.................-]
ΘΑΙΜΕΝΚΑΙΜΕΤΗΛΛΑΚΧΟΤΑΤΑ[......................-]
ΚΑΑΡΙΣΤΟΚΛΕΟΥΣΤΟΥΖΗΝ.[.....................-]
ΘΗΣΑΣΘΑΙΔΕΤΟΝΠΑΤΕΡΑΑ.Τ[...................]
ΤΗΣΤΥΧΗΣΣΥΜΦΟΡΑΙΣΤΑΙΣΤΕΛ[.........]
10ΓΟΝΕΥΣΜΗΤΡΟΔΟΡΟΥΤΟΥΓΟ[...............]
ΜΙΟΥΛΙΟΣΠΥΡΡΟΥΓΡΑΜΜ.[.........·]
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Apparatus
i.1: .ΟΥΚΑΙΤΗΟΙΝΙΑΚΑΤΑ Sherard, 1705, IAph2007; .ΟΥΚΑΙΙΕΘΕΙΙΙΑKATA Fellows, 1840; ... Ο.ΗΙΑΚΑΤΑ Waddington, 1850; Κ̣ΑΠ̣ΕΘΕΝ̣Τ̣ΑΚΑΤΑ Reinach, 1906
ii..7: ΚΕΛΑ
ii.9: at end ΤΕ Sherard, 1705, Fellows, 1840, Kubitschek, June 1893, Buresch, 1894; ΓΕ Waddington, 1850, MAMA 8; ΤΕΛ Reinach, 1906
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
(i): ...] in accordance with the areas ceded [to him by ..?.. son of ..?.., fourth of the name from Hypsikles and recorded in
the Property-archive. Of these, Aris[tokles son of Aristokles the] son of Zenon the son of Theaitetos, his son, has been buried
in the sarcophagus and [in it also shall be buried Ari]stokles son of Zenon and Apphion daughter of A[..?.. the son of ..?..
the son of] Herodes, his wife; and in the [subsisiary burial places shall be buried Me]nippos son of Aristokles the son of
Ze[non the son of Theaitetos] and whomsoever Zenon and Aristokles and the afore]mentioned Menippos wish. A copy [of this inscription
was deposited in the Property-Archive in the] fourth stephanephorate of Tiberius Claudius Hypsikles [ ..?..] in the month
of July.
(ii):[Decree of the Council? and of the People? . . . and of? ... ?the son] of Gortynios the son of Aristokles [ since ..?.. a
man] out[standing . . . ] in character and respectability of life [ has just] died [prematurely], it is fitting to console
[the parents of those who have died, grieving for the] loss of their loved ones. For this reason [it was agreed that Aristo]kles
son of Aristokles son of Ze[non ?son of Theaitetos] should be honoured even after death with [the first honours] and his father
[Aristokles] should be offered consolation for the accidents of fate which have occurred. Goneus son of Metrodoros son of
Go[neus being first archon], M(arcus) Iulius Pyrros being secretary [of the People]
Bibliography
Transcription: Picenini, 1705 13v and 53; Sherard, 1705 24; Fellows, 1840 (? a squeeze); Waddington, 1850; Buresch, 1888, 1895 (b); Kubitschek, June 1893 xxx; Gaudin, 1904 130; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition in 1973
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835, 2836 and 2776 ; Fellows, 1841, 52 and 28 , whence CIG II.3, 1843 p. 1111, Bailie, 1846 55 (ii) ; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870, 1633 (i and ii); Buresch, 1894 428-429 (ii), , whence Robert, Études Anatoliennes 102; Reinach, 1906, 11i and ii (mention); MAMA 8 541 (i) and 409 (ii), whence Robert, Hellenica XIII 208, 231 (ii lines 3-4, 9), Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1966.383 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 427 and 22 ; IAph2007 12.19.
