Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

13.512. Epitaph

Description: White marble garland sarcophagus: w: 2.10 × h: 0.85 × d: 0.93

Text: Inscribed on the upper edge (line 1) and within the tabula ansata; the text must have begun on the lid.

Letters:

Date: c.200 CE (textual context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, South-west area, found in a field 1.5 km southwest of the theatre hill

Original location: Findspot.

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

[ἡ σορὸς καὶ---]
ἐστιν
Ἐ̣[πιγόνο]υ̣ τ̣ρὶς τοῦ Σ[ω]κ̣ράτου̣ς̣
τοῦ Ζήνωνος τοῦ Διοδότου· ἐν ᾗ σο-
ρῷ κηδευθήσονται Ἐπίγονος ὁ
5προδηλούμενος καὶ Αὐρηλία Φλα-
βία Ἀντωνία Ζηνωνίς ἡ γυνὴ
τοῦ Ἐπιγόνου καὶ οὓς ἂν Ἐπίγο-
νος βουληθῇ ἢ διατάξηται, ἕται-
ρος δὲ οὐδείς. αἰὰν δέ τις ἐνθάψει
10τινὰ χωρὶς τῆς γνώμης τοῦ Ἐπιγό-
νου ἢ ἐκθάψι τῶν ἐνταφέντων
ἔστω ἀσεβὴς καὶ τυνβωρύχος.
ἐν δ̣ὲ ταῖς ἰσώσταις καὶ τῷ πλά<τᾳ>
κηδευθήσονται οὓς ἂν Ἐπί-
15γονος, κληρονόμοι, διάδοχοί
τε αὐτοῦ βουληθῶσιν. τῆς ἐπι-
γραφῆς ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον
εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφα-
νηφόρου τὸ Ϛ Τί(του) Φλ(αβίου) Χα<ι>ρέου, μη-
20νὸς Πανήμου.

Diplomatic

[.........---]
ΕΣΤΙΝ
.[......]..ΡΙΣΤΟΥΣ[.].ΡΑΤΟ..
ΤΟΥΖΗΝΩΝΟΣΤΟΥΔΙΟΔΟΤΟΥΕΝΗΣΟ
ΡΩΚΗΔΕΥΘΗΣΟΝΤΑΙΕΠΙΓΟΝΟΣΟ
5ΠΡΟΔΗΛΟΥΜΕΝΟΣΚΑΙΑΥΡΗΛΙΑΦΛΑ
ΒΙΑΑΝΤΩΝΙΑΖΗΝΩΝΙΣΗΓΥΝΗ
ΤΟΥΕΠΙΓΟΝΟΥΚΑΙΟΥΣΑΝΕΠΙΓΟ
ΝΟΣΒΟΥΛΗΘΗΗΔΙΑΤΑΞΗΤΑΙΕΤΑΙ
ΡΟΣΔΕΟΥΔΕΙΣΑΙΑΝΔΕΤΙΣΕΝΘΑΨΕΙ
10ΤΙΝΑΧΩΡΙΣΤΗΣΓΝΩΜΗΣΤΟΥΕΠΙΓΟ
ΝΟΥΗΕΚΘΑΨΙΤΩΝΕΝΤΑΦΕΝΤΩΝ
ΕΣΤΩΑΣΕΒΗΣΚΑΙΤΥΝΒΩΡΥΧΟΣ
ΕΝ.ΕΤΑΙΣΙΣΩΣΤΑΙΣΚΑΙΤΩΠΛΑ
ΚΗΔΕΥΘΗΣΟΝΤΑΙΟΥΣΑΝΕΠΙ
15ΓΟΝΟΣΚΛΗΡΟΝΟΜΟΙΔΙΑΔΟΧΟΙ
ΤΕΑΥΤΟΥΒΟΥΛΗΘΩΣΙΝΤΗΣΕΠΙ
ΓΡΑΦΗΣΑΠΕΤΕΘΗΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟΝ
ΕΙΣΤΟΧΡΕΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΝΕΠΙΣΤΕΦΑ
ΝΗΦΟΡΟΥΤΟϚΤΙΦΛΧΑΡΕΟΥΜΗ
20ΝΟΣΠΑΝΗΜΟΥ

Apparatus

13: ΕΝΑΕ

English translation

Translation source: Free, 2021

[This sarcophagus ...] belongs to Epigonos, son of Epigonos, son of Epigonos, son of Sokrates, son of Zenon, son of Diodotos. In this sarcophagus will be buried the aforementioned Epigonos and Aurelia Flavia Antonia Zenonis, Epigonos’ wife, and whoever Epigonos wishes or determines, and no one else. And if someone buries someone without Epigonos’ consent or removes a body of those that have been buried inside, let him be impious and a tomb-robber. In the niches and the platform will be buried whoever Epigonos, his heirs, and descendants wish or determine. A copy of the inscription was deposited in the registry when Titus Flavius Chaireas was stephanephoros for the sixth time, in the month Panemos.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 2016, Sarcophagus 846

Publication: Free, 2021 54, whence BE 2024.384.

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