Description: Right hand side fragment from a white marble
sarcophagus (w: 0.42 × h: 0.53 × d: 0.30); no decoration visible.
Text:
Inscribed on the face.
Letters: Standard second to third century forms.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Necropolis, South-east area: beside second field wall south of path east from South-east Gate.
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot (1976)
Interpretive
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[c. 54 Ἀ]μ̣μιανὸν
[c. 42 οὐδεὶς δὲ ἕτερ]ος ἐξουσί-
[αν ἕξει --- ἐπι]χειρήσας
[c. 46 ὧν τὸ τρί]τον ἔσται
5 [τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος καὶ οὐδὲν ἔλαττον μενεῖ κύρια τὰ ὑπ'ἐμοῦ διατεταγ]μενα τῆς ἐπι-
[γραφῆς ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρο]υ τὸ + Φλ(αβί-)((stop)) Δημη-
[τρί- μήνος ---] ( vac. 3)
Diplomatic
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[······················································.].ΜΙΑΝΟΝ
[··········································............]ΟΣΕΞΟΥΣΙ
[......---...]ΧΕΙΡΗΣΑΣ
[··············································.......]ΤΟΝΕΣΤΑΙ
5[.........................................................]ΜΕΝΑΤΗΣΕΠΙ
[......................................................]ΥΤΟ·ΦΛ • ΔΗΜΗ
[.........---]
Apparatus
Supplements embody the sense of the standard formulae, but not necessarily the precise wording used here.
Translation
. . . ]Ammianos [ . .c. 42 . . and no-one else shall have ] a right [ to bury here . . . c. 35 . . . since whoever] undertakes
[ to do so shall pay . . .? . . . of which one third] shall be [for the prosecutor; and none the less shall my instructions
remain valid. A copy of the] inscription [was deposited in the Property -archive in the stephanephorate] of Flavius (or Flavia)
Deme[trios (or Demetria) month ?]
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition Walls 140
Publication: IAph2007 13.307.
