Description: Right side of white marble
block, broken away on the other three sides (w: 0.66 × h: 0.62 × d: 0.66.
Text:
Inscribed on one face,
Letters: 0.0175-0.0225; uneven in height, spacing, and lineation; the first iota in line 1 added after completion of the word and
was not observed by either Reinach or the MAMA expedition.
Date: Second half of first century CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls, South-east Gate: re-used upside down in the construction of the gate, south side
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1973)
Interpretive
[...]
[c. 9] Ἑρμᾶ τοῦ Νάρδου δια-
[τεταγμένα] ἐφ' ᾧ κηδευθῇ αὐτὸς μό-
[νος ἕτερ]ος δὲ οὐδεὶς οὔτε κληρο-
[νόμος] ο̣ὔτε διάδοχός μου ἐπεὶ ( vac. 1)
5[ὁ ἐπι]χ̣ειρήσας ἕτερόν τινα κηδεῦ-
[σαι ἀ]ποτεισάτω τῷ δήμῳ (δηνάρια) ͵γ καὶ εἰς
[τὸν] κυριακὸν φίσκον (δηνάρια) ͵γ ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἔσ-
[ται τ]οῦ ἐκδικήσαντος τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς
[ἀπόκ]ε̣ιται ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὰ ἀρχεῖα ἐπὶ
10[στεφαν]ηφόρου Μ(άρκου) Ἀντωνίου Ἀγελάου ( vac. 3)
Diplomatic
[···]
[·········]ΕΡΜΑΤΟΥΝΑΡΔΟΥΔΙΑ
[.........]ΕΦΩΚΗΔΕΥΘΗΑΥΤΟΣΜΟ
[.......]ΟΣΔΕΟΥΔΕΙΣΟΥΤΕΚΛΗΡΟ
[.....].ΥΤΕΔΙΑΔΟΧΟΣΜΟΥΕΠΕΙ
5[....].ΕΙΡΗΣΑΣΕΤΕΡΟΝΤΙΝΑΚΗΔΕΥ
[....]ΠΟΤΕΙΣΑΤΩΤΩΔΗΜΩ 𐆖 ͵ΓΚΑΙΕΙΣ
[...]ΚΥΡΙΑΚΟΝΦΙΣΚΟΝ 𐆖 ͵ΓΩΝΤΟΤΡΙΤΟΝΕΣ
[....]ΟΥΕΚΔΙΚΗΣΑΝΤΟΣΤΗΣΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΗΣ
[....].ΙΤΑΙΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟΝΕΙΣΤΑΑΡΧΕΙΑΕΠΙ
10[......]ΗΦΟΡΟΥΜΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΥΑΓΕΛΑΟΥ
Apparatus
1: ΔΙΑΔ̣ Reinach, 1906
9: ΕΠ· Reinach, 1906
2-7: Reinach supplied more letters at ends of lines 2–7, but the right side is largely intact
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
. . . ]according to what was] ordained [[by ? . . ?son of] Hermas the son of Nardos, in which he alone is to be buried and
no-one else, neither my heir nor successor, since he who has undertaken to bury anyone else (scil. here) is to pay to the People 3000 denarii and to the imperial fiscus 3000 denarii, of which the third part shall belong to the prosecutor. A copy of the inscription is placed in the archives
under the stephanephoros M. Antonius Agelaos.
Bibliography
Transcription: Gaudin, 1904 15; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition
Publication: Reinach, 1906 176 ; MAMA 8 543 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 484 ; IAph2007 12.414.
