Funerary inscription for Hermogenes son of Menodoros
created: Preliminary transcription (Reynolds).
source date: First to second centuries CE
language: en; grc
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τὸ μνημεῖον καὶ τὸ ἐπ᾿ αὐτοῦ οἰκοδομημένον πυργίον [...] οὗ ἐστιν ἡ κάθοδος ἔμπροσθεν πρὸς μεσημβρίαν [...] ἐπὶ καθαρσίου κατεσκεύασαν Ἑρμογένης Μηνοδώρου [...] δώρου τοῦ Δημητρίου καὶ Ἀπολλώνιος καὶ Ἑρμογένης καὶ Ι[...] τὰ τέκνα τὰ Ἑρμογένους ἑαυτοῖς καὶ τοῖς ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐσομένοις τέκνοις καὶ ἐκγόνοις καὶ διαδόχοις αὐτῶν μηδενὸς ἔχοντος ἐξουσίαν μηδεμίαν τῶν κληρονόμων ἢ διαδόχων αὐτῶν ἐξαλλοτριῶσαι μήτε τὸ πύργιον μήτε τὸ ὑπ᾿ αὐτὸ μνημεῖον μήτε πράσεως ὀνόματι μήτε συνωχρήσεως ἐπεὶ ὁ ποιήσας τι ἐπὶ ἀπαλλοτριώσει ᾧ δή ποτε τρόπῳ καὶ ὁ ἀναδεξάμενος ἔνοχος ἔσται ἀσεβείᾳ καὶ εἰσοίσει ἕκαστος αὐτῶν εἰς τὸν κυριακὸν φίσκον ἀνὰ δηνάρια μυρία ὡς ἐκ καταδίκης ὧν τὸν τρίτον ἔσται τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος καὶ τὸ ὑπεναντίως γενόμενον ἔσται ἄκυρον καὶ οὐδὲν ἧττον μενεῖ τὰ προδηλούμενα εἰς τὰ καθωσιωμένα τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ταύτης ἀπετέθη τὰ νῦν ἀντίτυπον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Ἀττάλου Ἀδράστου τοῦ Νεικοτείμου ἥρωος τὸ δεύτερον μηνὸς Δείου

[^a1: at 3: ΜΗΝΟΔΟΡΟ | ΜΝΟΔΩΗ | ΜΗΝΟΔΩΡ | .. ]ΝΟΔΩΡΟ [At end:]]

[^a2: at 4: ΚΑΙ Ι | KAI [At end:]]

[^a3: at 5: ΕΞΟΜΕΝΩΝ | ΕΣΟΜΕΝΟ | ΕΣΟΜΕΝΟΙΣ | ΕΣΟΜΕΝΟΝ]

[^a4: at 6: ΜΗΔ [At end:] [omitted by Waddington]]

[^a5: at 8: ΕΠΕΙ | ΕΠ [At end:] [omitted by Waddington]]

[^a6: at 10: ΕΚΑΣΤΟΣΑΥΤΩΝ | ΕΚΑΣΑΥΤΩΝ | ΕΚΑΣΤΟΝ]

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 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.

[...] 12v-13, no. 40; [...]; [...]; [...], a fragment from the left side at Pirlibey; [...] K.III.27, another fragment at Aphrodisias

[...] 16 : Deering's copy ran across two pages; Leake missed the ends of lines 10-14, which were on the second (adjacent) page; [...] b.9 ; [...] 1639 , whence [...] 486 Fragment published by [...] 80 ; [...] fig. 14, assembled fragments; [...] 12.1205.