Description: Rectangular white marble
block (w: 0.41 × h: 0.33 × d: 0.31), perhaps part of a
sarcophagus
front.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel, intruding onto the moulding; lines 2-12 impinge on the right side moulding;
initial letters of lines 6 and 12 on the left side moulding; line 13 on the lower moulding.
Letters: 0.027
Date: Second to third centuries C.E., but before the edict of Caracalla (212). (lettering, nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls, West Gate: 'Traveaux neufs: Porte Ouest' (Gaudin); found by the NYU expedition during excavation of the Theatre
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum (1977)
Interpretive
τὸν πλάτην κατεσκεύα-
σαν ( vac. 1) Ἡρακλίδης Ζήνωνος
καὶ Ἀλένξαν̣δ̣ρος Ζήνωνος
καὶ Ἀπολλών̣ι̣ος Ζήνωνος ἐ-
5φ'ᾧ τεθήσονται οἱ κατεσκευά-
σαντες εἰς τὴν μέσην κλείνην
καὶ γυναῖκες αὐτῶν ( vac. 1) ἄλλῳ δὲ
οὐδενὶ ἐξὸν τ̣εθῆναι εἰς τὴν
μέσην κλείνην ( vac. 1) εἰς τὰς πα-
10ρ' ἑκάτερον κλείνας τεθήσον-
ται τέκνα καὶ ἔγγον<α> καὶ γένη̣
ἔ̣ξεσται δὲ ἑκάστῳ φίλους θῖναι
( vac. 2) δύω ( vac. 1) χαίρεται ( vac. 1) Ζ[ῶσι?]ν̣
Diplomatic
ΤΟΝΠΛΑΤΗΝΚΑΤΕΣΚΕΥΑ
ΣΑΝ ΗΡΑΚΛΙΔΗΣΖΗΝΩΝΟΣ
ΚΑΙΑΛΕΝΞΑ..ΡΟΣΖΗΝΩΝΟΣ
ΚΑΙΑΠΟΛΛΩ..ΟΣΖΗΝΩΝΟΣΕ
5ΦΩΤΕΘΗΣΟΝΤΑΙΟΙΚΑΤΕΣΚΕΥΑ
ΣΑΝΤΕΣΕΙΣΤΗΝΜΕΣΗΝΚΛΕΙΝΗΝ
ΚΑΙΓΥΝΑΙΚΕΣΑΥΤΩΝ ΑΛΛΩΔΕ
ΟΥΔΕΝΙΕΞΟΝ.ΕΘΗΝΑΙΕΙΣΤΗΝ
ΜΕΣΗΝΚΛΕΙΝΗΝ ΕΙΣΤΑΣΠΑ
10ΡΕΚΑΤΕΡΟΝΚΛΕΙΝΑΣΤΕΘΗΣΟΝ
ΤΑΙΤΕΚΝΑΚΑΙΕΓΓΟΝΚΑΙΓΕΝ.
.ΞΕΣΤΑΙΔΕΕΚΑΣΤΩΦΙΛΟΥΣΘΙΝΑΙ
ΔΥΩ ΧΑΙΡΕΤΑΙ Ζ[...].
Apparatus
2: Ἀλένξα[νδ]ρος Reinach, 1906
3: Ἀπολλώ[νι]ος Reinach, 1906
4: ΚΑΙ probably cut over erasure (deep letters)
5-6: κατεσκευά | σαντες for κατασκευάσαντες
6: ΝΤ a correction, cut over ΣΑ; first Ε added as part of a correction in a markedly early shape
13: Ζ[ . . . Reinach, 1906
Translation
Heraclides son of Zenon, Alexandros son of Zenon, and Apollonios son of Zenon prepared the platform where those who prepared
it and their wives will be buried in the middle burial place; no one else may be buried in the middle burial place. In the
burial places on either side their children and grandchildren and families shall be buried; each shall be allowed to bury
two friends there. Farewell. They are alive.
Bibliography
Transcription: Gaudin, 1904, 118; New York University expedition, 71.48
Publication: Reinach, 1906 165 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 483 ; IAph2007 12.1017.
