IAph: 12.1016. Funerary inscription for Publius Aelius Aurelius [---]

Description: White marble masonry block (w: 0.98 × h: 0.76 × d: 0.39) damaged at the upper right and lower left corners, and along all edges.

Text: Inscribed on the exposed face; from a composite monument, in which the inscription continued on a block to the right, and the lower parts of the letters in line 14 were cut on the block below.

Letters: 0.035; small circles to mark abbreviations and stops.

Date: Second to third centuries C.E. . (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, West Gate: fallen outside the west Gate

Original location: Necropolis

Last recorded location: Findspot (1990)

Interpretive

[ὁ πλ]άτας ((stop)) καὶ ὁ β[ωμὸς καὶ --- εἰ-]
σιν Ποπλίου Α[ἰλίου Αὐρηλίου --- κα-]
τασκευασθέντα [---καὶ τοῖς τέκνοις?]
αὐτοῦ ((stop)) ἐν ᾗ σορῷ [κε]κή[δευται ὁ υἱὸς Πόπλιος ]
5 Αἴλιος ((stop)) Αὐρήλιος [.] κα[ὶ --- κηδευθήσεται]
δὲ καὶ Πό(πλιος) Αἴλ(ιος) Αὐρ(ήλιος) Ἀ[--- ἕτερος δὲ οὐ-]
[δεὶ]ς ἕξει ἐξουσίαν [ἐνθάψαι εἰς αὐτήν τινα ἢ ἐκθάψαι ?]
ἀπὸ αὐτῆς ((stop)) ἐπεὶ ὁ το[λμήσας τι τούτων ἔσται ἀσεβὴς?]
καὶ ἐπάρατος καὶ τυ[μβωρύχος καὶ προσαποτείσει θε-]
10ῷ Ἀφροδείτῃ (δηνάρια) ((stop)) μύ(ρια) ε τ[οῖς δὲ κατὰ καιρὸν νεοποιοῖς]
χρυσοφόροις τῆς θεο[ῦ (δηνάρια) c. 20 τῆς]
ἐπιγραφῆς ταύτης ἀ[πετέθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεο-]
φυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφ[ανηφόρου τὸ β? Ἀττάλου? υἱοῦ]
( vac. ) ((scroll)) Μενάν[δρου μηνὸς c. 5]

Diplomatic

[...]ΑΤΑΣ • ΚΑΙΟΒ[.......---..-]
ΣΙΝΠΟΠΛΙΟΥΑ[.............---..-]
ΤΑΣΚΕΥΑΣΘΕΝΤΑ[---..............]
ΑΥΤΟΥ • ΕΝΗΣΟΡΩ[..]ΚΗ[..................]
5ΑΙΛΙΟΣ • ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟΣ[·]ΚΑ[.---............]
ΔΕΚΑΙΠΟΑΙΛΑΥΡΑ[---..........-]
[...]ΣΕΞΕΙΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΝ[...........................]
ΑΠΟΑΥΤΗΣ • ΕΠΕΙΟΤΟ[.........................]
ΚΑΙΕΠΑΡΑΤΟΣΚΑΙΤΥ[..........................-]
10ΩΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗ 𐆖 • ΜΥΕΤ[........................]
ΧΡΥΣΟΦΟΡΟΙΣΤΗΣΘΕΟ[.····················...]
ΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΗΣΤΑΥΤΗΣΑ[.........................-]
ΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΝΕΠΙΣΤΕΦ[......................]
ΜΕΝΑΝ[.........·····]

Apparatus

4: [κεκή ---] Reinach, 1906; [κε]κή[---] MAMA 8
11: θε[ᾶς] Reinach, 1906; θεο[ῦ] MAMA 8
12: ταύτης[---] Reinach, 1906; ταύτης ἀ[---] MAMA 8
13: φυλάκιον Reinach, 1906; [φ]υλάκιον MAMA 8 || στε[σ ---] Reinach, 1906; στεφ[---] MAMA 8