Funerary inscription for Aurelius Eumachos Apellas
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source date: Second to third centuries CE
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Αὐρήλιος Εὔμαχος Ἀπελλᾶ τοῦ [...] ος τοῦ Ζήνωνος τοῦ Εὐδάμου Εὔδαμος κατεσκεύασεν τὸν βωμὸν καὶ τὴν ἐπικειμένην αὐτῶ σορὸν ἐφ' ᾧ ἐν μὲν τῇ σορῷ ταφήσεται Εὔμαχος ὁ προδηλούμενος καὶ Αὐρηλία Τατία Παπίου τοῦ Περείτου Πανκράτους ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ Αὐρήλιος Διονύσιος ἑξάκι τοῦ Χρυσογόνου ὁ Τατίας τῆς Παπίου υἱὸς καὶ Αὐρήλιοι Ἀπελλᾶς καὶ Εὐμαχιανὴ τὰ τέκνα αὐτοῦ καὶ Αὐρηλία Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Ἀχιλλέως υἱοῦ Τολμίδου ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ ἐν δὲ ταῖς ὑποκειμέναις εἰσώσταις ταφήσονται οὓς ἂν Εὔμαχος βουληθῇ καὶ διατάξηται τεθῆναι ἐν αὐταῖς καὶ ἔκγονα αὐτοῦ μόνα ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἐξουσίαν ἕξει ἐνθάψαι τινὰ ἐν τῇ σορῷ οὔτε μετακεινῆσαι αὐτὴν οὔτε παραχωρῆσαι οὐδενί οὔτε τὸν βωμὸν οὔτε εἰσώστην ἀπ′ αὐτοῦ οὐδὲ τρόπον ἐφευρεῖν ᾧ ἐξαλλοτριωθῇ κατὰ παρεύρεσιν οὐδεμίαν ἀλλὰ μετὰ τὸ ταφῆναι τοὺς προγεγραμμένους πάντας ἀφηρωΐσθαι τὸ μνημεῖον ἐὰν δέ τις ἐπιχειρήσῃ ἢ ἐνθάψαι τινὰ ἐν τῇ σορῷ ἢ ἐν ταῖς εἰσώσταις ἢ μετακεινῆσαι τὴν σορὸν ἢ ὑπεναντίον τι τοῖς προγεγραμμένοις ποιῆσαι ἔστω ὅ τε ποιήσας ὅ τε ἀναδεξάμενος τυμβωρύχος καὶ ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπάρατος καὶ προσαποτεισάτωσαν ὅ τε ποιήσας ὅ τε ἀναδεξάμενος εἰς τὸ αἰράριον δήμου Ῥωμαίων ἀργυρίου δηνάρια μύρια καὶ οὐδὲν ἔλαττον ἔστω ἀφηρωϊσμένον τὸ ἡρῶον μετὰ τὸ τεθῆναι τοὺς προγεγραμμένους πάντας [...] τὸ τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀντίγραφον ἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Γλύκωνος πεντάκι τοῦ Ἀρχιμήδους μηνὸς Τραϊανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ

Eudamus, son of Apellas [?], son of [Zeno ?], son of Zeno, son of Eudamus [was the founder of this monument], and of the sarcophagus resting on it, wherein, that is, in the sarcophagus, are to be buried [himself, the aforesaid,] and Aurelia Tatia, daughter of Papias, the pancratiast, son of Pereitas, and Aurelius Dionysius, sixth in descent from Chrysogonus, son of Tatia, daughter [of Papias, and] Aurelius, his children also, Apellas and Eumachiana, and Au[relia, daughter of . . . and Tib]erius Claudius Achilles, son of Tolmides, his wife: [but in the underlying] compartments are to be buried those to whom Eumachus may be pleased to grant permission . . . to be laid therein, and his posterity alone; but no-one else [is to enjoy the privilege of enclosing any one] in the sarcophagus, or of removing it; neither is he to have the power [of allowing to another the use of the sarcophagus], or of the tomb itself, or of the compartment separate from it; neither is he to devise any expedient [whereby it may be alienated] under any pretence whatsoever; but after the burial [of all the aforesaid] the monument is to be converted into a Heroum; whereupon, should any person attempt either to bury [any one in the sarcophagus], or in the compartments, or to move the sarcophagus, or to act in any wise contrary [to these provisions] let the delinquent himself, and he who engages with him, be accounted a tomb-breaker, [and impious, and] accursed, and let them, namely, the delinquent, and be who [engages with him], be bound to pay [to the treasury] of the Roman people, ten thousand denaria of silver, and not less. The Heroum [is to be consecrated] after the burial [of all] the aforesaid therein. A copy of this epigraph was entered in the Chreophylakion, [during the Stephanephoria of Ze[no,] fifth in descent from Archimedes, [on the -th of the month of Trajanus Augustus

[^a1: at 16: τῷ ταμείῳ τοῦ] δήμου | εἰς τὸ ἐράριον] δήμου]

[...] 26v and, from Tisser, 76; [...] 15v; [...] 7v, no 31; [...]; [...] ('This operation was superintended by me under the influence of a noon-day sun in the month of August'); [...]; [...]; [...] R.I.31-31v, Abklatsch 54; [...] 139; [...]; [...]

[...] 2834 ; [...] 44 , whence [...] p. 1116; [...] p.53-544 , [...] 74 ; [...] a.15 (mention) ; [...] 1632 ; [...] 162 (mention) ; [...] 559 , whence [...] 211 (l. 16), [...] 1966.406, [...] 448 ; [...] 12.524.