Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

13.620. Funerary inscription for an unnamed woman and her family

Description: White marble sarcophagus, now broken, with five standing figures, very worn (?or never completed) in relief, and a robed figure at both corners. Transcribed from a squeeze taken (apparently) before the stone was broken; reassembled in 1981.

Text: Inscribed above and between figures, and (l. 24) on lower moulding; the text must have begun on the lid.

Letters: Standard forms; lines 1-2, 0.03; lines 3-23, 0.02; line 24, 0.025.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Necropolis, West area?: perhaps in tomb near New Geyre

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1981)

Interpretive

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ἐνταφέντας ἐπεὶ ὁ παρὰ ταῦτά τι ποιήσ[α]ς ἔστω ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπάρα-
τος καὶ (figure) τυμβ(figure)ωρύχος καὶ (figure) προσαπο-
τεισάτω (figure) εἰς τὸ ἱ(figure)ερώτατον τα(figure)μεῖον
(δηνάρια) ͵βφ ((stop)) ὧν (figure) τὸ γ ἔσ(figure)τω τοῦ ἐκδικ(figure)ήσαντος
5 βούλομ(figure)αι δὲ ἐ(figure)ν ταῖς εἰσώσ (figure) ταις τοῦ
ἡρώου (figure) ταφῆ(figure)ναι ἐν μὲν (figure) τῇ ἀνω-
τέρᾳ (figure) Ἀντ(ώνιον) (figure) Ἑρμῆν τὸν (figure) ἀδελ-
φόν (figure) μου (figure) ἐν δὲ τῇ κα-
τωτέρᾳ
10Ἐπίγο-
νον καὶ
[Π]ολυχρο-
νίαν τὰ
παιδία αὐ-
15τῆς ἐμὰ
δὲ θρεπτά-
ρια
τούτου
δὲ ἀπετέ-
20θη ἀντίγρα-
φον τοῦ
γράμμα-
τος καὶ ἐν
τοῖς ἀρχείοις ἀντί[γ]ραφον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου τὸ Ϛ Τ(ιτου) Φλ(αβιου) [Χαιρ?]έου μηνὸς Γορπιαίου ((scroll))

Diplomatic

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ΕΝΤΑΦΕΝΤΑΣΕΠΕΙΟΠΑΡΑΤΑΥΤΑΤΙΠΟΙΗΣ[.]ΣΕΣΤΩΑΣΕΒΗΣΚΑΙΕΠΑΡΑ
ΤΟΣΚΑΙ(figure)ΤΥΜΒ(figure)ΩΡΥΧΟΣΚΑΙ(figure)ΠΡΟΣΑΠΟ
ΤΕΙΣΑΤΩ(figure)ΕΙΣΤΟΙ(figure)ΕΡΩΤΑΤΟΝΤΑ(figure)ΜΕΙΟΝ
𐆖 ͵ΒΦ • ΩΝ(figure)ΤΟΓΕΣ(figure)ΤΩΤΟΥΕΚΔΙΚ(figure)ΗΣΑΝΤΟΣ
5ΒΟΥΛΟΜ(figure)ΑΙΔΕΕ(figure)ΝΤΑΙΣΕΙΣΩΣ(figure)ΤΑΙΣΤΟΥ
ΗΡΩΟΥ(figure)ΤΑΦΗ(figure)ΝΑΙΕΝΜΕΝ(figure)ΤΗΑΝΩ
ΤΕΡΑ(figure)ΑΝΤ(figure)ΕΡΜΗΝΤΟΝ(figure)ΑΔΕΛ
ΦΟΝ(figure)ΜΟΥ(figure)ΕΝΔΕΤΗΚΑ
ΤΩΤΕΡΑ
10ΕΠΙΓΟ
ΝΟΝΚΑΙ
[.]ΟΛΥΧΡΟ
ΝΙΑΝΤΑ
ΠΑΙΔΙΑΑΥ
15ΤΗΣΕΜΑ
ΔΕΘΡΕΠΤΑ
ΡΙΑ
ΤΟΥΤΟΥ
ΔΕΑΠΕΤΕ
20ΘΗΑΝΤΙΓΡΑ
ΦΟΝΤΟΥ
ΓΡΑΜΜΑ
ΤΟΣΚΑΙΕΝ
ΤΟΙΣΑΡΧΕΙΟΙΣΑΝΤΙ[.]ΡΑΦΟΝΕΠΙΣΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΥΤΟϚΤΦΛ[....]ΕΟΥΜΗΝΟΣΓΟΡΠΙΑΙΟΥ

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

. . . ] those buried in it, since whoever acts in any way contrary to these (i.e. provisions) is to be (scil. considered) impious and accursed and a tomb-breaker, and in addition to pay to the most sacred Treasury (i.e. at Rome) 2800 denarii of which a third is to belong to the prosecutor. And I wish that in the burial places of the tomb (heroon) Antonius Hermes, my brother, be buried in the upper one, and in the lower one Epigonos and Polychronia <and?> her children, whom I have brought up. A copy of this document was deposited also in the archives a copy, in the sixth stephanephorate of Titus Flavius [?Chair]eas, in the month Gorpiaios.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition in 1979/80, Museum 55, Sarcophagus 13

Publication: Smith, 2006 Sarcophagus 1 (mention, and plate 156).

Images

Fig. 1. Complete (M. Roueché, 1981)

Fig. 2. Right end fragment (M. Roueché, 1980)


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