Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

12.517. Funerary inscription for Kallikrates

Description: Lower left side of a white marble block moulded below (w: 0.70 × h: 0.42 × d: 0.64).

Text: Inscribed on the visible face (a) within a moulded panel, and (b) on the lower moulding. There was already a faulty area on the face which the cutter avoided.

Letters: Ave. 0.015. The serifs are exaggerated, but the forms not quite standard Second-third century

Date: Probably early second century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, South-east stretch: inside the south stretch, about half-way between the South-east gate and the Theatre break

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1990)

Interpretive

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[c. 7]Ν̣Ε̣ δηνάρια Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣ [...]
[.] Ι̣ ἔξεσται δὲ οὐδὲ ὑπὸ τὴν ἰσώσ̣τ̣[ην ? ...]
νοις αὐτῶν ἢ εἴ τινι Καλλικράτης συνχωρήσ̣[ει ...]
ἐπὶ ἐάν τις παρὰ ταῦτα τι ποιήσῃ ἀποτείσε[ι ...]
5 ΟΥΤΟΝ τῶν ἐπιγραφῶν ἀπο ( vac. 3) κεῖται ΚΑ[...]
ΗΝ ἰσώστην καὶ τῶν εἰς τ( vac. 3) ὸν π̣λ̣ά̣τα̣[ν ...]
ἡρωίδος τὸ ἕκτον μηνὸς ( vac. 3) Δείου ( vac. 3) [...]

Diplomatic

[---]
[·······]..ΔΗΝΑΡΙΑ...[···]
[·].ΕΞΕΣΤΑΙΔΕΟΥΔΕΥΠΟΤΗΝΙΣΩ..[..···]
ΝΟΙΣΑΥΤΩΝΗΕΙΤΙΝΙΚΑΛΛΙΚΡΑΤΗΣΣΥΝΧΩΡΗ.[..···]
ΕΠΙΕΑΝΤΙΣΠΑΡΑΤΑΥΤΑΤΙΠΟΙΗΣΗΑΠΟΤΕΙΣΕ[.···]
5ΟΥΤΟΝΤΩΝΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΩΝΑΠΟ      ΚΕΙΤΑΙΚΑ[···]
ΗΝΙΣΩΣΤΗΝΚΑΙΤΩΝΕΙΣΤ      ΟΝ...Τ.[.···]
ΗΡΩΙΔΟΣΤΟΕΚΤΟΝΜΗΝΟΣ      ΔΕΙΟΥ      [···]

Translation

[---] denarii [---] will be possible neither under the burial niche [ . . . ?chil]dren of them or if Kallikrates shall give permission to anyone [---]since if anyone should do anyhting contrary to this, he will pay [---] of the inscriptions is deposited [ . . . the] burial niche and the [---] on the platform [---] deceased (female), [stephanephoros for] the sixth time, month Deios.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition Walls 160

Publication: IAph2007 12.517.

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1990)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1990)