Funerary inscription for Aurelia Zotike and her father
created: Transcription (Reynolds)
source date: Probably first half of the third century .
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ἡ σορός ἐστιν Αὐρηλίας Ζωτικῆς τῆς καὶ Ζωτικοῦ τοῦ Πανκράτου τοῦ καὶ Δημητρίου εἰς ἣν ταφήσεται αὑτὴ καὶ Αὐρήλιος Ζωτικὸς ὁ πάτηρ αὐτῆς ἕταιρος δὲ οὐδὶς ἕξι ἐξουσίαν ἐνθάψε τινὰ ἢ ἐχθάψεν ἐπὶ αεπι ἀποτίσει τῇ θεῷ Ἀφροδίτῃ δηνάρια ͵ε ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἔστω τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος [...]

The sarcophagus is the property of Aurelia Zotike also called daughter of Zotikos son of Pankrates who was also called Demetrios, in which she shall be buried herself and Aurelius Zotikos her father; but no-one else shall have the right to bury anyone in it or to remove anyone since (if he does) he will pay the goddess Aphrodite 5000 denarii, of which one third is to belong to the prosecutor.

It is virtually certain that one line has dropped out between lines 2 and 3, so that Zotike's second name and the beginning of her father's gentile name have been omitted. In line 12 letters 4-7 probably show a misunderstanding or mistranscription of the phrase ἐπεὶ ἐσται ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπάρατος καὶ τυμβωρύχος καὶ ἀποτείσει.The father looks likely to have been the first Roman citizen in the family, no doubt obtaining citizenship in 212. The names suggest a comparatively modest social status. Nothing is said of anything but the sarcophagus, but the funerary fine is a little above average.

[...] in 1994, Sarcophagus 411

[...] Sarcophagus 12 (mention) ; [...] 179 , whence [...] 57.1027; [...] 13.108