Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

14.41. Epitaph of Poseidonios and family members

Description: Marble block, broken below and at right: w: 0.80 × h: 0.45 × d: 0.18

Text: Inscribed on the face.

Letters: 0.025-0.035

Date: Second century CE (lettering, nomenclature)

Findspot: Karaçasu

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (Inv. no. 6042)

Interpretive

Tὸ μνημεῖον καὶ α̣ἱ ἐ̣[ν α]ὐ̣τ̣ῷ ἰσῶσται καὶ [ὁ παρα?-]
[κ]είμενος ὀπίσω τοῦ μνημείου πλάτα[ς εἰσιν]
[Π]οσειδωνίου τοῦ Ποσειδω( vac. 1)νίου ΤΕ [c. 5]
καὶ Ἀπφίας τῆς Ἡρακλέοντος τῆς γυνα̣[ικὸς αὐ-]
5τοῦ καὶ τέκνων καὶ ἐγόνων ( vac. 2) αὐτῶν κα̣[ὶ γυναι-]
κῶν· εἰς δὲ τὴν ἐπιτεθησομένην ὑπὸ [Ποσειδω-]
νίου σορὸν οὐδεὶς ἕτερος ἕξει ἐξουσίαν [ἐνθά-]
ψαί τινα ἕτερον ἢ μόνους Ποσειδών[ιον καὶ Ἀπ-]
φίαν, τοὺς προγεγραμ͜μένους · ἐπεὶ ὁ π̣[αρὰ ταῦτα]
10τι ποιήσας ἔστω ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπάρατο[ς καὶ τυμ-]
[βωρύχος καὶ προσ]αποτεισάτω τῷ ἱ̣[ερωτάτῳ]
[ταμείῳ ------]

Diplomatic

TΟΜΝΗΜΕΙΟΝΚΑΙ.Ι.[..]..ΩΙΣΩΣΤΑΙΚΑΙ[.....-]
[.]ΕΙΜΕΝΟΣΟΠΙΣΩΤΟΥΜΝΗΜΕΙΟΥΠΛΑΤΑ[......]
[.]ΟΣΕΙΔΩΝΙΟΥΤΟΥΠΟΣΕΙΔΩ  ΝΙΟΥΤΕ[·····]
ΚΑΙΑΠΦΙΑΣΤΗΣΗΡΑΚΛΕΟΝΤΟΣΤΗΣΓΥΝ.[......-]
5ΤΟΥΚΑΙΤΕΚΝΩΝΚΑΙΕΓΟΝΩΝ    ΑΥΤΩΝΚ.[......-]
ΚΩΝΕΙΣΔΕΤΗΝΕΠΙΤΕΘΗΣΟΜΕΝΗΝΥΠΟ[.......-]
ΝΙΟΥΣΟΡΟΝΟΥΔΕΙΣΕΤΕΡΟΣΕΞΕΙΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΝ[....-]
ΨΑΙΤΙΝΑΕΤΕΡΟΝΗΜΟΝΟΥΣΠΟΣΕΙΔΩΝ[........-]
ΦΙΑΝΤΟΥΣΠΡΟΓΕΓΡΑΜ͜ΜΕΝΟΥΣΕΠΕΙΟ.[........]
10ΤΙΠΟΙΗΣΑΣΕΣΤΩΑΣΕΒΗΣΚΑΙΕΠΑΡΑΤΟ[.......-]
[..............]ΑΠΟΤΕΙΣΑΤΩΤΩ.[.......]
[......------]

Apparatus

3,.4: Spaces represent previous damage to the surface
5-6: γυναι]/κῶν JMR

English translation

Translation source: Chaniotis, 2004

This monument and the niches in it and the platform which is behind the monument belong to Poseidonios, son of Poseidonios [—] and Apphia, daughter of Herakleon, his wife, and to their children and their descendants and [their wives]. No one will have the authority to bury someone in the sarcophagus, which Poseidonios will place (on the platform), any other person than the aforementioned Poseidonios and Apphia alone, because the person who acts against this will be impious and accursed and a grave-robber, and in addition to this he will have to pay to the most sacred treasury . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition I 00.005

Publication: Chaniotis, 2004 29, whence SEG 54.1062, Chaniotis, EBGR 2007.43.

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