Description:
White marble
block (w: 0.93 × h: 0.70 x depth not measurable) from the right side of a composite monument.
Text: Inscribed on a prepared area.
Letters: lines 1, 2, 0.03; lines 3, 4, 6, 0.022; lines 5, 7, 8, 0.025. Apostrophe for abbreviation
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls, South-west: half buried on top of the southern stretch.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1975)
Interpretive
[τὸ μνημεῖον ἐστιν? Μάρ(κου) Αὐ]ρ(ηλίου) Ἀγαθόποδος τοῦ Ἀγαθόπο-
[δος] τοῦ [c. 11 τοῦ Διο]νυσίου παρακεχωρημένου αὐ-
[τῷδιὰτοῦχρεοφυλακίου ὑπὸ Μ]άρ(κου) Αὐρ(ηλίου) Διονυσίου τοῦ Ζήνωνος
[ἕτεροςδὲοὐδεὶς ἕξει] ἐξουσίαν ἐνθάψαι τινα ἢ ἐκθά-
5[ψαι χωρὶς αὐτοῦ Μάρ(κου) Αὐρ(ηλίου) Ἀγ]αθόποδος ἢ τῶν κληρονόμων ἢ
[διαδόχων ἐπεὶ ὁ] [ποιήσας ἀπο]τείσει τῷ ταμείῳ (δηνάρια) ͵α τῆς ἐπιγρα-
[φῆς ἀντίγραφον ἀπετέθη] εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐ̣πὶ στεφα-
[νηφόρου τὸ? ..Ἀτταλίδος? τῆς Με]νεκράτους μηνὸς Ἀπελλαίου ( vac. 2)
Diplomatic
[....................]ΡΑΓΑΘΟΠΟΔΟΣΤΟΥΑΓΑΘΟΠΟ
[...]ΤΟΥ[···········......]ΝΥΣΙΟΥΠΑΡΑΚΕΧΩΡΗΜΕΝΟΥΑΥ
[........................]ΑΡΑΥΡΔΙΟΝΥΣΙΟΥΤΟΥΖΗΝΩΝΟΣ
[..................]ΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΝΕΝΘΑΨΑΙΤΙΝΑΗΕΚΘΑ
5[.......................]ΑΘΟΠΟΔΟΣΗΤΩΝΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΩΝΗ
[.............][..........]ΤΕΙΣΕΙΤΩΤΑΜΕΙΩ.͵ΑΤΗΣΕΠΙΓΡΑ
[....................]ΕΙΣΤΟΧΡΕΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΝ.ΠΙΣΤΕΦΑ
[.........··..............]ΝΕΚΡΑΤΟΥΣΜΗΝΟΣΑΠΕΛΛΑΙΟΥ
Apparatus
At the beginnings of the lines appropriate formulae have been supplied from standard funeraries, giving the sense of what
is lost, although not necessarily the exact wording (in particular the word used for the tomb in line 1 is undertain.
2: Since M. Aur. Agathopous is not identifiable, we cannot complete his genealogy.
7: ΣΠΙ
8: A number may have been given for Attalis' stephanephorate, although there hardly seems space for it.
Translation
[The tomb is the property of Marcus Aur]elius Agathopous the son of Agathopous the son of [ name lost] the son of Dionysios,
to whom it was ceded [in a transaction recorded in the Property-archive by] Marcus Aurelius Dionysios son of Zenon; and no-one
else shall have the right to bury anyone (in it) or remove a body [except him, Marcus Aurelius Ag]athopous or his heirs [or
successors since he who acts so] will pay to the treasurey (at Rome) 1000 denarii. [A copy of the inscription was deposited]
in the Property-archive in the stephanephorate [ ? for the xx time, of Attalis daughter of Me]nekrates, month of Apellaios.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Walls 119
Publication: IAph2007 12.805.
