Description: Piece from a moulded panel or sarcophagus front (w: 0.81 × h: 0.59 × d: 0.14) with a right edge, but perhaps cut down.
Text:
Inscribed on the moulding.
Letters: Ave. 0.025; diaereses around ι in δια, line 1, Ιασων, line 5.
Date: First to second centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls, South (east part) excavation, mid area
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
Interpretive
[c. 21ὑπὲ?]ρ̣ ὠνῆς διὰ τοῦ χρεοφυλακίου
[c. 19 Μηνοδό?]του τοῦ Νεικοτείμου Μηνο-
[δότου c. 19 Μ]ε̣λτίνη Ἀθηναγόρου ἡ γυνὴ αὐτο[ῦ]
[c. 15 ἕτερος δὲ ο]ὐ̣δεὶς εἰς δὲ τὰς εἰσώστας ἐ[ν-]
5[ταφῆναι οὕς ἄν βουληθῆ ὁ] [υἱὸς αὐ]τοῦ Ἰάσων οὐδεὶς δὲ ἕξει ἐ
[ξουσίαν c. 11 ἐνθά]ψαι ἕτερον ἐπεὶ ἀποτείσ-
[c. 6] ( vac. 1 line)
[ει c. 25 ἀπετ]έθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τ̣[ὸ]
[χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Πύρου τοῦ Πύρου τοῦ] Παπίου Κώου μηνὸς ( vac. 3)
[c. 6] ( vac. 1 line)
Diplomatic
[·····················...].ΩΝΗΣΔΙΑΤΟΥΧΡΕΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΥ
[···················......]ΤΟΥΤΟΥΝΕΙΚΟΤΕΙΜΟΥΜΗΝΟ
[.....···················.].ΛΤΙΝΗΑΘΗΝΑΓΟΡΟΥΗΓΥΝΗΑΥΤΟ[.]
[···············.........].ΔΕΙΣΕΙΣΔΕΤΑΣΕΙΣΩΣΤΑΣΕ[.-]
5[....................][......]ΤΟΥΙΑΣΩΝΟΥΔΕΙΣΔΕΕΞΕΙΕ
[.......···········....]ΨΑΙΕΤΕΡΟΝΕΠΕΙΑΠΟΤΕΙΣ
[······] vacat
[..·························....]ΕΘΗΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟΝΕΙΣ.[.]
[...........................................]ΠΑΠΙΟΥΚΩΟΥΜΗΝΟΣ
[······] vacat
Apparatus
1: ΡΩΝΗΣ
8: ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου c. 4] Παπίου Κώου
English translation
Translation source:
[?... for the purpose of purchase] through the Property-archive, [name of owner, descendent of ?Menodotos] the son of Nikoteimos
[? Menodotos and ..?..] Meltine his wife [?and Jason his son shall be buried here but] no-one [else] and in the subsidiary
burial places [shall be buried those whom] Jason his [son] wishes. But no-one shall have [the right ..?.. to bury anyone else
[here] since [if he does] he will pay to ..?.. the sum of ..?.. . A copy [of the inscription] was deposited in the [Property
Archive in the stephanephorate of?] Papias son of Koos in the month [?].
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition 76.131
Publication: IAph2007 12.610.
