Description: Two white marble masonry
masonry blocks, of which the right is lost. The left hand block is complete above, below and to the left
(w: 1.30 × h: 0.93 × d: 0.32), damaged in the upper left corner, and along its right side.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters: 0.025
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering, nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls, South (east part): in separate locations: left block just east of 1975 excavations,
'Remparts. 20 mètres avant la porte présumée du gymnase' (Gaudin)
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot: 1973 (Left block), 1850 (Right block)
Interpretive
[τὴν σορ]ὸ̣ν ἐωνήσατο Αὐρηλ[ία Παπιανὴ Ὀν]ησίμου τοῦ Παπίου καθ'ἣν ἐποι
[ήσατ]ο̣ διαθήκην Μᾶρ(κος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Κλάδαιος Φιλήτο[υ τ]οῦ Ἑρμοῦ εἰς ἣν σορὸν κεκήδευ
[ται] ὁ Κλάδαιος γενόμενος ἀνὴ[ρ τῆς] Πα̣[π]ι̣ανῆς καθ'ἃ διετάξατο κηδευθήσον
[τ]α̣ι δὲ ἐν αὐτῆ καὶ Αὐρηλίαι Γλύπτη ἡ ἀναθρ̣εψαμένη αὐτὸν καὶ Παπιανὴ ἡ προ
5γεγραμένη καὶ Γλύπτ[η] Κ̣λ̣αδαίου ἡ θυγάτ[ηρ] αὐτῶν ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐ
ξουσίαν ἐνθάψαι τινὰ ἐν τῇ σορῷ ἐπ̣εὶ ἀποτείσει εἰς τὸ ἱερώτατον ταμεῖον ἀρ
γυρίου (δηνάρια) ͵Ϛ ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἔσται τοῦ ἐκγδ̣ικήσαντος εἰς δὲ τὴν ὑπὸ τῇ σορῷ ἐν τῷ
εἰδοφόρῳ εἰσώστη<ν> καὶ τὰις ἐν τῷ βωμῷ κηδευθήσονται οἷς ἂν Παπιανὴ ἡ προ
γεγραμμένη συνχωρήσῃ τέκνα διάδοχοί τε αὐτῆς ( vac. 4) τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ταύτης
10 ἀντίγραφον ἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιο̣ν ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Ποπλίας Αἰλίας
( vac. 7) ((star)) ( vac. 4) Ἀτταλίδος Σαβείνης τὸ γ μηνὸς Γορπιήου ((star)) ( vac. 7)
Diplomatic
[......].ΝΕΩΝΗΣΑΤΟΑΥΡΗΛ[...........]ΗΣΙΜΟΥΤΟΥΠΑΠΙΟΥΚΑΘΗΝΕΠΟΙ
[....].ΔΙΑΘΗΚΗΝΜΑΡΑΥΡΚΛΑΔΑΙΟΣΦΙΛΗΤΟ[..]ΟΥΕΡΜΟΥΕΙΣΗΝΣΟΡΟΝΚΕΚΗΔΕΥ
[...]ΟΚΛΑΔΑΙΟΣΓΕΝΟΜΕΝΟΣΑΝΗ[....]Π.[.].ΑΝΗΣΚΑΘΑΔΙΕΤΑΞΑΤΟΚΗΔΕΥΘΗΣΟΝ
[.].ΙΔΕΕΝΑΥΤΗΚΑΙΑΥΡΗΛΙΑΙΓΛΥΠΤΗΗΑΝΑΘ.ΕΨΑΜΕΝΗΑΥΤΟΝΚΑΙΠΑΠΙΑΝΗΗΠΡΟ
5ΓΕΓΡΑΜΕΝΗΚΑΙΓΛΥΠΤ[.]..ΑΔΑΙΟΥΗΘΥΓΑΤ[..]ΑΥΤΩΝΕΤΕΡΟΣΔΕΟΥΔΕΙΣΕΞΕΙΕ
ΞΟΥΣΙΑΝΕΝΘΑΨΑΙΤΙΝΑΕΝΤΗΣΟΡΩΕ.ΕΙΑΠΟΤΕΙΣΕΙΕΙΣΤΟΙΕΡΩΤΑΤΟΝΤΑΜΕΙΟΝΑΡ
ΓΥΡΙΟΥ 𐆖 ͵ϚΩΝΤΟΤΡΙΤΟΝΕΣΤΑΙΤΟΥΕΚΓ.ΙΚΗΣΑΝΤΟΣΕΙΣΔΕΤΗΝΥΠΟΤΗΣΟΡΩΕΝΤΩ
ΕΙΔΟΦΟΡΩΕΙΣΩΣΤΗΚΑΙΤΑΙΣΕΝΤΩΒΩΜΩΚΗΔΕΥΘΗΣΟΝΤΑΙΟΙΣΑΝΠΑΠΙΑΝΗΗΠΡΟ
ΓΕΓΡΑΜΜΕΝΗΣΥΝΧΩΡΗΣΗΤΕΚΝΑΔΙΑΔΟΧΟΙΤΕΑΥΤΗΣ ΤΗΣΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΗΣΤΑΥΤΗΣ
10ΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟΝΑΠΕΤΕΘΗΕΙΣΤΟΧΡΕΟΦΥΛΑΚΙ.ΝΕΠΙΣΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΥΠΟΠΛΙΑΣΑΙΛΙΑΣ
* ΑΤΤΑΛΙΔΟΣΣΑΒΕΙΝΗΣΤΟΓΜΗΝΟΣΓΟΡΠΙΗΟΥ *
Apparatus
The left block had already lost its upper left corner when copied by Sherard; Waddington recorded damage to the right side
of the left block.
English translation
Translation source: Fellows, 1841
Aurelia Papiana, daughter of Onesimos, the son of Papias, bought the sarcophagus according to the will which Marcus Aurelius
Cla[u]dius, son of Philetes, the son of Hermes, made. In this sarcophagus there has been buried Cla[u]dius, who had been the
husband of Papiana, according to his last will; and there shall be buried in it also Aurelia Glypte, who had brought him up,
and Papiana the aforesaid, and Glypte and Onesime, their daughters. But nobody shall have leave to bury another in the sarcophagus;
since he shall pay to the most sacred treasury 3000 silver denaria, of which one-third is to be his who institutes proceedings.
But in the Isoste, which is in the frieze under the sarcophagus, and those in the altar, there shall be buried those to whom
the aforesaid Papiana may grant it, her children and heirs. A copy of this inscription has been deposited in the archives
under the Stephanephorus Publia Aelia Attalis Sabina, on the third day of the month Gorpieus
Translation
No translation yet (2007)
Bibliography
Transcription: Both blocks: Picenini, 1705 24 and, from Tisser, 75v; Sherard, 1705 13v; Deering, 181211v-12, no. 38; Fellows, 1840; Bailie, 1842; Loew, 1841; Waddington, 1850; Left block only: Reichel, 1893 R.I.25v (sketch); Gaudin, 1904 136; Calder, 1934; New York University expedition in 1973
Publication: CIG II.2, 1835 2840 ; Fellows, 1841 45, 46 , whence CIG II.3, 1843 p. 1117; Bailie, 1846 75 ; Franz, 1847 a.16 (mention) ; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1637 ; Reinach, 1906 181 (mention) ; MAMA 8 560 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 440 ; IAph2007 12.631.
