Funerary inscription for an unnamed woman and her family
created: Copy of squeeze and of stone (Reynolds)
source date: Second to third centuries CE
language: en; grc
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[...] ἐνταφέντας ἐπεὶ ὁ παρὰ ταῦτά τι ποιήσας ἔστω ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπάρατος καὶ[^1] τυμβ[^2]ωρύχος καὶ[^3] προσαποτεισάτω[^4] εἰς τὸ ἱ[^5]ερώτατον τα[^6]μεῖον δηνάρια ͵βφ ὧν[^7] τὸ γ ἔσ[^8]τω τοῦ ἐκδικ[^9]ήσαντος βούλομ[^10]αι δὲ ἐ[^11]ν ταῖς εἰσώσ[^12] ταις τοῦ ἡρώου[^13] ταφῆ[^14]ναι ἐν μὲν[^15] τῇ ἀνωτέρᾳ[^16] Ἀντώνιον[^17] Ἑρμῆν τὸν[^18] ἀδελφόν[^19] μου[^20] ἐν δὲ τῇ κατωτέρᾳ Ἐπίγονον καὶ Πολυχρονίαν τὰ παιδία αὐτῆς ἐμὰ δὲ θρεπτάρια τούτου δὲ ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον τοῦ γράμματος καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἀρχείοις ἀντίγραφον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου τὸ Ϛ Τιτου Φλαβιου Χαιρέου μηνὸς Γορπιαίου

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. . . ] those buried in it, since whoever acts in any way contrary to these provisions is to be considered impious and accursed and a tomb-breaker, and in addition to pay to the most sacred Treasury 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[^21] 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.

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[...] in 1979/80, Museum 55, Sarcophagus 13

[...] Sarcophagus 1 (mention, and plate 156).