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Letters: 0.02 (Anthopoulos); dot for stop.
Date: First to second centuries CE (nomenclature)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Walls: 'A fallen stone near the city wall' (Waddington).
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Complete in 1850; fragments at Pirlibey (1872), Aphrodisias (1893)
Interpretive
τὸ μνημεῖον καὶ τὸ ἐπ᾿αὐτοῦ οἰκοδομημέν[ον πυργίον? c. 16]
οὗ ἐστιν ἡ κάθοδος ἔμπροσθεν πρὸς μεσημβρί[αν c. 18]
ἐπὶ καθαρσίου κατεσκεύασαν Ἑρμογένης Μηνοδώρο[υ c. 12]
δώρου τοῦ Δημητρίου καὶ Ἀπολλώνιος καὶ Ἑρμογένης καὶ Ι̣[c. 8]
5 τὰ τέκνα τὰ Ἑρμογένους ἑαυτοῖς καὶ τοῖς ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐσομένοις [τέκνοις καὶ?]
ἐκγόνοις καὶ διαδόχοις αὐτῶν ((dash)) μηδενὸς ἔχοντος ἐξουσίαν μη[δεμίαν τῶν]
κληρονόμων ἢ διαδόχων αὐτῶν ἐξαλλοτριῶσαι μήτε τὸ πύργιον μή-
τε τὸ ὑπ᾿αὐτὸ μνημεῖον μήτε πράσεως ὀνόματι μήτε συνωχρήσεως ἐπεὶ
ὁ ποιήσας τι ἐπὶ ἀπαλλοτριώσει ᾧ δή ποτε τρόπῳ καὶ ὁ ἀναδεξάμενος
10 ἔνοχος ἔσται ἀσεβείᾳ καὶ εἰσοίσει ἕκαστος αὐτῶν εἰς τὸν κυριακὸν φίσκον ἀ-
νὰ (δηνάρια) μυρία ὡς ἐκ καταδίκης ὧν τὸν τρίτον ἔσται τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος καὶ τὸ ὑ-
πεναντίως γενόμενον ἔσται ἄκυρον καὶ οὐδὲν ἧττον μενεῖ τὰ προδηλού-
μενα εἰς τὰ καθωσιωμένα ((stop)) τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ταύτης ἀπετέθη τὰ νῦν ἀν-
τίτυπον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου ((stop)) Ἀττάλου Ἀδράστου
15 τοῦ Νεικοτείμου ἥρωος τὸ δεύτερον μηνὸς Δείου ((leaf))
Diplomatic
ΤΟΜΝΗΜΕΙΟΝΚΑΙΤΟΕΠ᾿ΑΥΤΟΥΟΙΚΟΔΟΜΗΜΕΝ[.........················]
ΟΥΕΣΤΙΝΗΚΑΘΟΔΟΣΕΜΠΡΟΣΘΕΝΠΡΟΣΜΕΣΗΜΒΡΙ[..··················]
ΕΠΙΚΑΘΑΡΣΙΟΥΚΑΤΕΣΚΕΥΑΣΑΝΕΡΜΟΓΕΝΗΣΜΗΝΟΔΩΡΟ[.············]
ΔΩΡΟΥΤΟΥΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥΚΑΙΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΣΚΑΙΕΡΜΟΓΕΝΗΣΚΑΙ.[········]
5ΤΑΤΕΚΝΑΤΑΕΡΜΟΓΕΝΟΥΣΕΑΥΤΟΙΣΚΑΙΤΟΙΣΕΞΑΥΤΩΝΕΣΟΜΕΝΟΙΣ[..........]
ΕΚΓΟΝΟΙΣΚΑΙΔΙΑΔΟΧΟΙΣΑΥΤΩΝ ― ΜΗΔΕΝΟΣΕΧΟΝΤΟΣΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΝΜΗ[.........]
ΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΩΝΗΔΙΑΔΟΧΩΝΑΥΤΩΝΕΞΑΛΛΟΤΡΙΩΣΑΙΜΗΤΕΤΟΠΥΡΓΙΟΝΜΗ
ΤΕΤΟΥΠ᾿ΑΥΤΟΜΝΗΜΕΙΟΝΜΗΤΕΠΡΑΣΕΩΣΟΝΟΜΑΤΙΜΗΤΕΣΥΝΩΧΡΗΣΕΩΣΕΠΕΙ
ΟΠΟΙΗΣΑΣΤΙΕΠΙΑΠΑΛΛΟΤΡΙΩΣΕΙΩΔΗΠΟΤΕΤΡΟΠΩΚΑΙΟΑΝΑΔΕΞΑΜΕΝΟΣ
10ΕΝΟΧΟΣΕΣΤΑΙΑΣΕΒΕΙΑΚΑΙΕΙΣΟΙΣΕΙΕΚΑΣΤΟΣΑΥΤΩΝΕΙΣΤΟΝΚΥΡΙΑΚΟΝΦΙΣΚΟΝΑ
ΝΑ 𐆖 ΜΥΡΙΑΩΣΕΚΚΑΤΑΔΙΚΗΣΩΝΤΟΝΤΡΙΤΟΝΕΣΤΑΙΤΟΥΕΚΔΙΚΗΣΑΝΤΟΣΚΑΙΤΟΥ
ΠΕΝΑΝΤΙΩΣΓΕΝΟΜΕΝΟΝΕΣΤΑΙΑΚΥΡΟΝΚΑΙΟΥΔΕΝΗΤΤΟΝΜΕΝΕΙΤΑΠΡΟΔΗΛΟΥ
ΜΕΝΑΕΙΣΤΑΚΑΘΩΣΙΩΜΕΝΑ • ΤΗΣΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΗΣΤΑΥΤΗΣΑΠΕΤΕΘΗΤΑΝΥΝΑΝ
ΤΙΤΥΠΟΝΕΙΣΤΟΧΡΕΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΝΕΠΙΣΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΥ • ΑΤΤΑΛΟΥΑΔΡΑΣΤΟΥ
15ΤΟΥΝΕΙΚΟΤΕΙΜΟΥΗΡΩΟΣΤΟΔΕΥΤΕΡΟΝΜΗΝΟΣΔΕΙΟΥ ❦
Apparatus
2: ΚΑΘΟΔΟΞΕΝΠΡΟΣ Deering, 1812
3: κατεσκεύασεν IAph2007 || At end: ΜΗΝΟΔΟΡΟ Deering, 1812; ΜΝΟΔΩΗ Franz, 1847; ΜΗΝΟΔΩΡ Le Bas and Waddington, 1870; .. ]ΝΟΔΩΡΟ Anthopoulos, 1875
4: At end: ΚΑΙ Ι Franz, 1847, Anthopoulos, 1875; KAI Deering, 1812, Le Bas and Waddington, 1870
5: ΕΞΟΜΕΝΩΝ Deering, 1812; ΕΣΟΜΕΝΟ Franz, 1847; ΕΣΟΜΕΝΟΙΣ Le Bas and Waddington, 1870; ΕΣΟΜΕΝΟΝ Anthopoulos, 1875
6: At end: ΜΗΔ Deering, 1812, Franz, 1847, Anthopoulos, 1875 omitted by Waddington
8: At end: ΕΠΕΙ Deering, 1812, Franz, 1847; ΕΠ Anthopoulos, 1875 omitted by Waddington
10: ΕΚΑΣΤΟΣΑΥΤΩΝ Deering, 1812; ΕΚΑΣΑΥΤΩΝ Franz, 1847; ΕΚΑΣΤΟΝ Le Bas and Waddington, 1870
English translation
Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds
The memorial and the ?[tower] built on it [ . . . ] where the way down is in front to the south [ . . . ] for ?libation. It
was comstructed by Hermogenes son of Menodoros [ . . son of -]doros son of Demetrios, and Apollonios and Hermogenes and [
. . . ] the children of Hermogenes for themselves and their future [children and] grandchildren and their successors. No-one
of the heirs of successors has any authority to alienate either the tower or the memorial below it, either under the name
of sale or concession, since he who does anything in the way of alienation, in whatever manner, and he who receives it will
be liable to a charge of impiety, and shall each of them pay to the imperial fiscus each ten thousand denarii, as from a conviction, of which the third shall belong to the prosecutor; and (scil. the places) mentioned above shall remain among the consecrated. The current facsimile of this inscription was deposited in
the Property-Archive in the second stephanephorate of Attalos Adrastos the heroised son of Neikoteimos, in the month Deios.
Bibliography
Transcription: Deering, 1812 12v-13, no. 40; Loew, 1841; Waddington, 1850; Anthopoulos, 1872, a fragment from the left side at Pirlibey; Kubitschek, June 1893 K.III.27, another fragment at Aphrodisias
Publication: Leake, 1843 16 : Deering's copy ran across two pages; Leake missed the ends of lines 10-14, which were on the second (adjacent) page;
Franz, 1847 b.9 ; Le Bas and Waddington, 1870 1639 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 486 Fragment published by Anthopoulos, 1875 80 ; Cormack, 1955 fig. 14, assembled fragments; IAph2007 12.1205.
