Description: A rectangular block (w: 1.045 × h: 0.76 x depth not measurable).
Text:
Inscribed on the exposed face.
Letters: 0.03; dot for stop.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls, North-west stretch: in the standing stretch of wall north of the West gate with
12.1102, 12.1112
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1973)
Interpretive
τὸ μνημεῖον καὶ ἡ ἐπ᾿αὐτῷ σορός ( vac. 3)
Χάρητος τετράκι τοῦ Ζήνωνος τοῦ Ἀρτέμω-
νος Αἰνείου ((stop)) εἰς ἣν σορὸν κεκήδευται Χάρης
ὁ πατὴρ ὁ Αἰνείου καὶ Χάρης καὶ Ἀπφία οἱ πάπποι
5 αὐτοῦ καὶ Γλύκων ὁ θεῖος αὐτοῦ μόνων ἔτι κη̣-
δευθησομένων Ἀπφίας τῆς μητρὸς τῆς Αἰ
νείου καὶ Αἰνείου καὶ τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ καὶ
φυσικῶν τέκνων αὐτοῦ ((stop)) μηδενὸς ἔ-
χοντος ἐξουσίαν ἄλλον τινὰ ἐνθάψαι
10 μήτε εἰς τὸν βωμὸν μήτε εἰς τὴν σορὸν
ἐπεὶ ὁ ἐνθάψας ἀποτεισάτω τῷ ἱερωτάτῳ τα-
μείῳ (δηνάρια) δισχείλια πεντακόσια ταύτης τῆς̣
ἐπιγραφῆς ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρε̣-
οφυλάκιον ((dash)) ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου ((stop)) τὸ θ Ἀττα-
15λίδος τῆς Μενεκράτους μηνὸς Γορπιέου ((stop))
Diplomatic
ΤΟΜΝΗΜΕΙΟΝΚΑΙΗΕΠ᾿ΑΥΤΩΣΟΡΟΣ
ΧΑΡΗΤΟΣΤΕΤΡΑΚΙΤΟΥΖΗΝΩΝΟΣΤΟΥΑΡΤΕΜΩ
ΝΟΣΑΙΝΕΙΟΥ • ΕΙΣΗΝΣΟΡΟΝΚΕΚΗΔΕΥΤΑΙΧΑΡΗΣ
ΟΠΑΤΗΡΟΑΙΝΕΙΟΥΚΑΙΧΑΡΗΣΚΑΙΑΠΦΙΑΟΙΠΑΠΠΟΙ
5ΑΥΤΟΥΚΑΙΓΛΥΚΩΝΟΘΕΙΟΣΑΥΤΟΥΜΟΝΩΝΕΤΙΚ.
ΔΕΥΘΗΣΟΜΕΝΩΝΑΠΦΙΑΣΤΗΣΜΗΤΡΟΣΤΗΣΑΙ
ΝΕΙΟΥΚΑΙΑΙΝΕΙΟΥΚΑΙΤΗΣΓΥΝΑΙΚΟΣΑΥΤΟΥΚΑΙ
ΦΥΣΙΚΩΝΤΕΚΝΩΝΑΥΤΟΥ • ΜΗΔΕΝΟΣΕ
ΧΟΝΤΟΣΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΝΑΛΛΟΝΤΙΝΑΕΝΘΑΨΑΙ
10ΜΗΤΕΕΙΣΤΟΝΒΩΜΟΝΜΗΤΕΕΙΣΤΗΝΣΟΡΟΝ
ΕΠΕΙΟΕΝΘΑΨΑΣΑΠΟΤΕΙΣΑΤΩΤΩΙΕΡΩΤΑΤΩΤΑ
ΜΕΙΩ 𐆖 ΔΙΣΧΕΙΛΙΑΠΕΝΤΑΚΟΣΙΑΤΑΥΤΗΣΤΗ.
ΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΗΣΑΠΕΤΕΘΗΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟΝΕΙΣΤΟΧΡ.
ΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΝ ― ΕΠΙΣΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΥ • ΤΟΘΑΤΤΑ
15ΛΙΔΟΣΤΗΣΜΕΝΕΚΡΑΤΟΥΣΜΗΝΟΣΓΟΡΠΙΕΟΥ •
English translation
Translation by: chaniotis2018
(Lines 1-7): The monument and the sarcophagus on it belong to Chares, son of Chares, son of Chares, son of Chares, Aineias, son of Zenon,
son of Artemon. In this sarcophagus has been buried Chares [III] the father of Aineias, and Chares [II] and Apphia his grandparents,
and Glykon his uncle; and the only other individuals who shall be buried in addition to them are Aineias's mother and Aineias
himself.
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
The memorial and the sarcophagus on it belong to Chares IV Aineas, (i.e. son of Chares, son of Chares, son of Chares) son
of Zenon the son of Artemon. In the sarcophagus there have been buried Chares the father of Aineas, Chares and Apphia his
grandparents, and Glykon his uncle, while only Apphia the mother of Aineas and Aineas and his wife and his natural children
shall yet be buried there. No-one has the right to bury anyone else either in the altar or in the sarcophagus, since whoever
does so is to pay to the most sacred treasury two thousand five hundred denarii. A copy of this inscription was deposited
in the Property-archive in the ninth stephanephorate of Attalis, daughter of Menekrates, in the month Gorpiaios.
English translation
Translation source: Fellows, 1841
The monument and the sarcophagus upon it are the property of Chares Aeneas, descending in the fourth generation from Zeno,
the son of Artemo. In the sarcophagus there has been buried Chares, the father of Aeneas, and Chares and Appia, his grandfather
and grandmother, and Glyco, his uncle, there being yet to be buried only Appia, Aeneas' mother, and his wife, and the children
begotten of his body, nobody having leave to bury another, neither in the monument nor in the sarcophagus, since he who buries
[another there] shall pay into the most sacred treasury 2500 denaria. A copy of this inscription was deposited in the archives,
there being Stephanephorus for the ninth time Attalis, the daughter of Menecrates, in the month Gorpieus
Bibliography
Transcription: Fellows, 1840; Bailie, 1842; Waddington, 1850; Kubitschek, June 1893 K.III.6d; New York University expedition
Publication: Fellows, 1841 54 , whence CIG II.3, 1843 2837b, p.1117; Bailie, 1846 76 ; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1634 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 415 ; IAph2007 12.1109; Chaniotis, 2018 451
