Description: Left side of a white marble
garland
sarcophagus; for full description see Işık 104.
Text:
Inscribed on the upper moulding (line 1) and within the tabella of which only the left side survives (0.15 x 0.39). The text
must have begun on the lid.
Letters: Quite well-designed, cut and aligned in the second-to-fourth-century style, 0.02. Ligatured ΤΗ (l.4); small slanting stroke above the figure in line 7.
Date: Probably first half of the third century CE (lettering, stephanephoros)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Necropolis, North-east, near chamber tomb
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Museum.
Interpretive
[... ἀποτείσει? εἰς τὸ ἱερώτατον]
ταμεῖ[ῳ (δηνάρια) καὶ? τῇ θεᾷ]
Ἀφροδ[είτῃ (δηνάρια) ὧν? τὸ τρίτον]
ἔστα[ι τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος]
τῆς ἐ[πιγραφῆς ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυ-]
5λάκιον [ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου]
τὸ ζ Ὑ̣[ψικλέους Ἀδράσ-]
τοῦ τ[ο ...]
ΚΟΡ ((stop)) Μ[..]
ἐν δὲ τ[... τα?-]
10φήσον[ται ...]
((scroll)) ΕΙΟ
( vac. 3)
τὸ ζ Ὑ̣[ψικλέους Ἀδράσ-]
του τ[οῦ Ἀδράστου μη(νὸς)?]
ΚΟΡ ((stop)) Μ[..]
15 ἐν δὲ τ[αῖς εἰσώσταις τα-]
φήσον[ται οὓς ἂν ὁ c. 5]-
((scroll)) ειο[ς βουλήθη]
( vac. 3)
Diplomatic
[···.......................]
ΤΑΜΕΙ[.][........]
ΑΦΡΟΔ[....][..........]
ΕΣΤΑ[................]
ΤΗΣΕ[....................................-]
5ΛΑΚΙΟΝ[...............]
ΤΟΖ.[.............-]
ΤΟΥΤ[.···]
ΚΟΡ • Μ[··]
ΕΝΔΕΤ[···..-]
10ΦΗΣΟΝ[...···]
ΕΙΟ
ΤΟΖ.[.............-]
ΤΟΥΤ[.............]
ΚΟΡ • Μ[··]
15ΕΝΔΕΤ[..............-]
ΦΗΣΟΝ[.........·····]
ΕΙΟ[........]
Apparatus
1-6,.10-12: are supplemented exempli gratia by versions of the standard formula; the sense must be correct (even if the exact wording
is not always so), and only the owner's name (lines 11-12) remains uncertain
7: the only name with initial Y which is at all common in Aphrodisian élite families is Hypsikles and the name of Hypsikles Adrastos son of Adrastos, could
be fitted in here; he was a prominent Aphrodisian of the Hadrianic period who is known to have held the stephanephorate post
mortem and indeed in the third century (for a date by his seventh tenure see 13.109). In 1447 either he or his father is credited with the additional name Hierax and although this figures only for his grandfather
in earlier inscriptions of the family (12.26=MAMA 413, with 12.3 483, 12.308 484, 12.4 485), it may well have appeared, whether rightly or wrongly, in any text that named him in the third century. If we can suggest
a cutter's error in the third letter of line 9 (where I can make no likely sense of what stands on the stone)
6-9: could be supplemented ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου]τὸ ζ´ Ὑ[ψικλέους Ἀδράσ] | του τ[οῦ Ἀδράστου Ἱέρα] | κο ⸢ς⸣ ((stop)) μ[ήνος?] . There can be no certainty that this is the man, but it has a certain plausibility.
English translation
Translation source: Reynolds, 2007
... whover contravenes these provisions will pay to the most sacred] treasury [.. ? .. denarii and to the goddess ] Aphrodite
[ .. ? .. denarii, of which one third] shall belong [ to the proecutor] A copy of the inscribed text [was deposited in the
Property]-archive in the seventh stephanephorate of ?Hy[psikles son of Adras]tos son of [Adrastos ? in the month] KOR M [
.. ? .. ] And in the other burial places shall be buried whomsoever [ .....]eius (sc. the owner) wishes.
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition in 1994, Sarcophagus 433
Publication: Reynolds, 2007 104 , whence SEG 57.1018; IAph2007 13.149.
