Funerary inscription for Diomedes [...] and Neikephoros
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source date: Third century CE
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[...] ἐκ τῆς δοθείσης αὐτῷ συνχωρήσεως τόπου ὑπὸ τῶν περὶ [...] διὰ τοῦ χρεοφυλακίου εἰς ἣν σορὸν κεκήδευται Διομήδης [...] της καὶ Διονυσία ἡ γύνη αὐτοῦ ἐν δὲ ταῖς εἰσώσταις [...][...]ος οὔτε ἐκ τοῦ γένους αὐτῶν οὔτε κληρόνομους αὐτῶν [...] εἰς τὴν σορὸν ἄλλο σωμάτειον οὔτε αὐτοὶ ταφῆναι [...] προδηλουμένους οὐδὲ συνχώρησίν τινι ποιήσασθαι οὔτε με[...] ἢ κεινῆσαι τὴν σορὸν ἐπεί ὁ τούτων τι ἢ τολμήσας ἢ [...] τῷ ἱερωτάτῃ ταμείῳ ἀργυρίου δηνάρια πεντακισχειλια ὧν τὸ τρίτον τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος ἔστω τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ταύτης ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Δομιτίας Ἱέρακος θυγατρός Ἀπφίας

[...] δειου εἰσὶν Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Νεικηφόρου τρὶς τοῦ [...]Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Διομήδους τοῦ Πρείμου τοῦ Νεικηφόρου[...] εἰσώστας ἐς ἃς εἰσκηδευθήσεται αὐτός τε καὶ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ [...] ἑτέρῳ δὲ οὐδενὶ ἐξέσται ἐνθάψαι τινὰ εἰς αὐτὰς ἐπεὶ [...] τούτου ἀντίγραφον ἀπετέθη καὶ εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον μετὰ τῆς συγχωρήσεως ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Δημητρίου τοῦ Πύρρου [...] ἔτι βούλομαι ἐνταφῆνναι εἰς τὰς εἰσώστας καὶ [...]πρ[...] [...]

[^a1: at b 3: ΕΙΣΚΛΗΔ | εἰσ[ώστας] εἰσκηδ]

[^1]: . . . from the concession of the place made to him by [ . . ? . . ] and his associates [ . . . and recorded ]in the Property Archive; in which sarcophagus there has been buried Diomedes [ . . ? . . -]tes and Dionysia his wife, and in the subsidiary burial places [ . . ? . . it will not be allowable to bury anyone . . . ] neither anyone of their family nor their heirs. [Nor shall anyone else have the right to bury] another body in the sarcophagus nor to be buried themselves, [ . . ? . . ] those aforementioned nor to make a concession to anyone nor [ . . ? . . ] or to move the sarcophagus, since whoever either dares any of these things [or . . shall be liable to pay to the] sacred treasury at Rome five thousand silver denarii [of which a third part] is to belong [to the prosecutor]. A copy of this inscription was deposited [in the Property Archive in the year when] Domitia Apphia, daughter of Hierax, was stephanephoros.

[^1: a]

[^2]: . . . . ? of the memorial are the property of Marcus Aurelius Nikephoros, third of the name after [Nikephoros . . ? . . and] of Marcus Aurelius Diomedes son of Primus the son of Nik[ephoros . . ? . . ] in which [subsidiary burial places] he will himself be buried and his father, [ . . ? . . ] but no-one [else] shall have the right to bury anyone in them since [whoever does so shall pay . . ? . . to the ?imperial treasury]. A copy of this was deposited also in the Property Archive, [? along with the concession] when the stephanephoros was Demetrios son of Pyrrhos [? in the month ?] I also wish [ . . ? . . ] there to be buried in the subsidiary burial places [ . . ? . .

[^2: b]

[...] 15v, and, from Tisser, 62, whence [...] 25v

Transcribed, less well than usually, from the Sherard notebooks, by Müller, whence [...] 2835 , whence [...] 469 (A), 458 (B); [...] 12.32.