Description: Marble
sarcophagus, and sarcophagus lid:
w: 2.03 × h: 1.04 × d: 0.70.
On the front a tabula ansata flanked by two Erotes and two garlands (with bunches of grapes hanging from them);
the swags carry the busts of a woman (left) and a man (right); in the corners two Nikai; on the short sides garland swags
with gorgoneia.
Text:
Inscribed on the lid (lines 1-3), above and in the tabula (lines 4-16) and along the lower border of the tabula (line 17)
Letters: 0.02
Date: Third century CE (material context)
Findspot: Aphrodisias:
Necropolis, South-east area
Original location: Necropolis, South-east area
Last recorded location: Museum
Interpretive
Ἡ [σορὸς] κὲ ὁ περὶ αὐτ[ὴν τό]π̣ος ἐστὶ[ν..]Τ̣[c. 6]ΤΑΤΕ [c. 12]οσυος Ἀπολλωνίου Κλαυδια-
νοῦ · ἐν ᾗ σορῷ κηδευθήσεται αὐτὸς κὲ Ἀμμία ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ ἡ θυγάτηρ Γλυκωνίς·
οὐδε̣ὶ̣ς̣ ἕξει ἐξ̣ο̣υσίαν̣ οὐ̣δ̣ὲ̣ ἐνθάψε οὐδὲ ἐ̣κ̣θάψαι οὐδὲ με̣τ̣α̣θ̣εῖν̣ε̣
τὴν σορὸν, ἐπεὶ ἀπο-
5τείσει τῷ
ἱερωτάτῳ
φίσκῳ ἀργυ-
ρίου (δηνάρια) ͵βφ,
ὧν τὸ τρί-
10τον ἔστε
τοῦ ἐκδι-
κήσαντος·
τούτου
τοῦ γράμ-
15ματος ἀπετέθη
ἀντίγραφον ἰς τὸ χρεο-
φυλάκιον ἐπὶ {Σ} στεφανηφόρου Πύρου τοῦ Πύρου τοῦ Παπίου Κώου μηνὸς ἑνδεκάτου
Diplomatic
Η[.....]ΚΕΟΠΕΡΙΑΥΤ[....].ΟΣΕΣΤΙ[.··].[······]ΤΑΤΕ[············]ΟΣΥΟΣΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥΚΛΑΥΔΙΑ
ΝΟΥΕΝΗΣΟΡΩΚΗΔΕΥΘΗΣΕΤΑΙΑΥΤΟΣΚΕΑΜΜΙΑΗΓΥΝΗΑΥΤΟΥΗΘΥΓΑΤΗΡΓΛΥΚΩΝΙΣ
ΟΥΔ...ΕΞΕΙΕ..ΥΣΙΑ.Ο...ΕΝΘΑΨΕΟΥΔΕ..ΘΑΨΑΙΟΥΔΕΜ....ΕΙ..
ΤΗΝΣΟΡΟΝΕΠΕΙΑΠΟ
5ΤΕΙΣΕΙΤΩ
ΙΕΡΩΤΑΤΩ
ΦΙΣΚΩΑΡΓΥ
ΡΙΟΥ 𐆖 ͵ΒΦ
ΩΝΤΟΤΡΙ
10ΤΟΝΕΣΤΕ
ΤΟΥΕΚΔΙ
ΚΗΣΑΝΤΟΣ
ΤΟΥΤΟΥ
ΤΟΥΓΡΑΜ
15ΜΑΤΟΣΑΠΕΤΕΘΗ
ΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟΝΙΣΤΟΧΡΕΟ
ΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΝΕΠΙΣΣΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΥΠΥΡΟΥΤΟΥΠΥΡΟΥΤΟΥΠΑΠΙΟΥΚΩΟΥΜΗΝΟΣΕΝΔΕΚΑΤΟΥ
English translation
Translation source: Chaniotis and Smith, 2016
The sarcophagus and the place around it belong to -- Apollonios Claudianus. He himself shall be buried in this sarcophagus
and Ammia, his wife, and his daughter Glykonis. No one shall have authorisation either to bury (someone) or to remove (someone)
or to move the sarcophagus, because (otherwise) he shall pay to the most holy fiscus 2500 denarii of silver, one-third of which shall belong to the vindicator. A copy of this document was deposited in the registry under the stephanephorate of Pyros Koos, son of Pyros, son of Papias,
in the eleventh month.
Bibliography
Transcription: Aphrodisias Museum team, in 2006/2007, New York University expedition I-07-16, Sarcophagus 716
Publication: Smith, 2009 330 no. 1 (mention); Chaniotis and Smith, 2016 6, whence SEG 66.1164