Funerary inscription for Chares son of Zenon
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source date: Second to third centuries CE
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τὸ μνημεῖον καὶ ἡ ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ σορός Χάρητος τετράκι τοῦ Ζήνωνος τοῦ Ἀρτέμωνος Αἰνείου εἰς ἣν σορὸν κεκήδευται Χάρης ὁ πατὴρ ὁ Αἰνείου καὶ Χάρης καὶ Ἀπφία οἱ πάπποι αὐτοῦ καὶ Γλύκων ὁ θεῖος αὐτοῦ μόνων ἔτι κηδευθησομένων Ἀπφίας τῆς μητρὸς τῆς Αἰνείου καὶ Αἰνείου καὶ τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ καὶ φυσικῶν τέκνων αὐτοῦ μηδενὸς ἔχοντος ἐξουσίαν ἄλλον τινὰ ἐνθάψαι μήτε εἰς τὸν βωμὸν μήτε εἰς τὴν σορὸν ἐπεὶ ὁ ἐνθάψας ἀποτεισάτω τῷ ἱερωτάτῳ ταμείῳ δηνάρια δισχείλια πεντακόσια ταύτης τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου τὸ θ Ἀτταλίδος τῆς Μενεκράτους μηνὸς Γορπιέου

[^a1: at 1: αὐτῷ | αὐτoῦ]

[^a2: at 5: ΕΤΙ | ἔτι | ἐπι-]

[^1]: 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.

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The memorial and the sarcophagus on it belong to Chares IV Aineas, 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.

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

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