Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

13.202. Funerary stele for Amyntas and family

Description: A white marble stele, with a pediment; very worn and scarcely legible in places. (w: 0.50 × h: 0.97).

Text: Inscribed on the face below the pediment.

Letters: Second-early first century BCE; 0.02

Date: Second-early first century BCE (lettering, nomenclature)

Findspot: Ata Eymir: 'Vakuf Chan (in der Wand)'.

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1893)

Interpretive

Ἀμύντας Μένητος [Ὄ?-]
νασις Ἡρακλεί[του?]
γυνὴ δὲ Ἀμύντ[ο]υ̣ Μενέ-
στρατος Ἀμ[ύντου Β]ερε-
5νίκη Μενε[σ]τ[ράτου γυν]ὴ̣ δὲ
[Μεν]ε̣σττρά[του ..]ΤΕ̣
[c. 5]Λ[c. 10]
[c. 17]Υ

Diplomatic

ΑΜΥΝΤΑΣΜΕΝΗΤΟΣ[.-]
ΝΑΣΙΣΗΡΑΚΛΕΙ[...]
ΓΥΝΗΔΕΑΜΥΝΤ[.].ΜΕΝΕ
ΣΤΡΑΤΟΣΑΜ[......]ΕΡΕ
5ΝΙΚΗΜΕΝΕ[.]Τ[........].ΔΕ
[...].ΣΤΤΡΑ[...··]Τ.
[·····]Λ[··········]
[·················]Υ

Apparatus

2: the name could also be Ἡρακλεί[δου] or Ἡρακλεί[ους] Robert, 1966

Translation

Amyntas (son) of Menes, [... O]nasis (daughter of) Herakleitos, wife of Amyntas, Menestratos (son of) Am[yntas, B]erenike (daughter of) Mene[stratos, wife] of ?[Men]estra[tos ...]

Bibliography

Transcription: Kubitschek, June 1893 K.III.58, Abklatsch 70

Publication: Cormack, 1964 31 , whence Robert, 1966 384-5, BE 1967.544 , McCabe, PHI, 1996 418 ; IAph2007 13.202.

Images

Fig. 1. Kubitschek notebook III, 58