Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

13.9. Imprecation formula from funerary text

Description: No description; 'fragment' (Gaudin).

Text: No description.

Letters: 0.02; square sigma in line 2 (?=Ε).

Date: First to fourth centuries CE (formulae)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, North area: 'Nécropole; cimetière turc' (Gaudin)

Original location: Unknown; necropolis

Last recorded location: Findspot (1904)

Interpretive

[c. 12]ΙΙΛΙΘ
[c. 13]Σ̣ ὁ γλυκύ-
[τατος ---]λος α̣[ὐ]τοῦ μηδεν̣-
[ὸς] ἔτι ἔχοντος ἐξουσί-
5[α]ν ἐνθάψαι τινὰ ἐν αὐτ[ῷ]
[ἐ]πεὶ ἀποτείσει τῷ ἱερωτά-
[τῳ] ταμείῳ ἀργυρίου (δηνάρια) ͵γ
[ταύ]της τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς
[ἀντίγραφον ἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ
χρεοφυλάκιον ------]

Diplomatic

[············]ΙΙΛΙΘ
[·············].ΟΓΛΥΚΥ
[.....---]ΛΟΣ.[.]ΤΟΥΜΗΔΕ.
[..]ΕΤΙΕΧΟΝΤΟΣΕΞΟΥΣΙ
5[.]ΝΕΝΘΑΨΑΙΤΙΝΑΕΝΑΥΤ[.]
[.]ΠΕΙΑΠΟΤΕΙΣΕΙΤΩΙΕΡΩΤΑ
[..]ΤΑΜΕΙΩΑΡΓΥΡΙΟΥ 𐆖 ͵Γ
[...]ΤΗΣΤΗΣΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΗΣ
[..................................------]

Translation

[---] the very dear [---] []his [---]; no one else has the right to bury anyone therein since (scil. if he does) he will pay the sacred treasury 3 000 silver denarii. [A copy] of this inscription [was deposited in the Property-Archive in the stephanephorate of ---]

Bibliography

Transcription: Gaudin, 1904 54

Publication: Reinach, 1906 177 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 565 ; IAph2007 13.9.

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