Description: A funeral monument,
with sculpture:
Text: 'This, tho' Christian, is cut on an 'ara sepulchrali', big basis, and
with the basreliefs' (Sherard).
Letters: No measurements. Abbreviations: ΟΥ, scroll, letter above line.
Date: Late sixth/early seventh century. (titulature, prosopography)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: In or near Aphrodisias: 'along the way' (Sherard).
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1716).
Interpretive
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[c. 5]ΙΟΝΑΝΟΝΥ
ΜΟΝ[.]ΝΕΜΝ
τῶν γενομένων
κὲ κυρ[ωθ]έν[τ]ων
5ἐπὶ Θεοφυλάκτ̣ου
τοῦ ἐνδοξοτά(του)
ἀπὸἐπάρχων
καὶ θίου δικαϲτοῦ
ἰνδ(ικτιῶνοϲ) ιε μη(νὸϲ) α
10Θεοχάριϲτοϲ
Ἀχαείου [c. 4]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[c. 5] Νου[ν]έ̣χ[ι]οϲ
Φαβουλίου,
15Προκόπιοϲ [καὶ?]
Θεόδοροϲ ἀνα-
[γ]νόϲτηϲ ο[ἱ] Ῥού-
[φου] ἰατροῦ,
Θεοφύλακτοϲ
20διάκο(νοϲ), Μαριανὸϲ
διάκο(νοϲ), Γεόργιϲ
ὁ ἀδελφὸϲ Ἀβελ-
κίου ( vac. )
Diplomatic
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[·····]ΙΟΝΑΝΟΝΥ
ΜΟΝ[·]ΝΕΜΝ
ΤΩΝΓΕΝΟΜΕΝΩΝ
ΚΕΚΥΡ[..]ΕΝ[.]ΩΝ
5ΕΠΙΘΕΟΦΥΛΑΚ.ΟΥ
ΤΟΥΕΝΔΟΞΟΤΑ
ΑΠΟΕΠΑΡΧΩΝ
ΚΑΙΘΙΟΥΔΙΚΑϹΤΟΥ
ΙΝΔΙΕΜΗΑ
10ΘΕΟΧΑΡΙϹΤΟϹ
ΑΧΑΕΙΟΥ[····]
[ - - - - - - - - - - ]
[·····]ΝΟΥ[.].Χ[.]ΟϹ
ΦΑΒΟΥΛΙΟΥ
15ΠΡΟΚΟΠΙΟϹ[...]
ΘΕΟΔΟΡΟϹΑΝΑ
[.]ΝΟϹΤΗϹΟ[.]ΡΟΥ
[...]ΙΑΤΡΟΥ
ΘΕΟΦΥΛΑΚΤΟϹ
20ΔΙΑΚΟΜΑΡΙΑΝΟϹ
ΔΙΑΚΟΓΕΟΡΓΙϹ
ΟΑΔΕΛΦΟϹΑΒΕΛ
ΚΙΟΥ
Apparatus
1-2: τὸν ανόνυ | μον Ramsay, 1897
4: ΚΕΚΥΡΕΝΔΟΝ Sherard, 1716; κεκυρ[ωμέν]ον CIG IV, 1856; κὲ κυρ(ωθέντα) Ramsay, 1897
5: ΘΕΟΦΥΛΑΚΙȢ Sherard, 1716; Θεοφυλακίου CIG IV, 1856, Ramsay, 1897; Θεοφυλάκτου Grégoire, IGC, 1922
8: ΒΙΟΥ Sherard, 1716; βίου CIG IV, 1856, Ramsay, 1897; θίου Grégoire, IGC, 1922
11: ΑΧΑΕΙΟΥ Sherard, 1716; Ἀγαθίου? Grégoire, IGC, 1922
13: [---]ΝΟΥϹΧΟϹ Sherard, 1716; [Μό]σχος CIG IV, 1856; [Παφ]νού[θι]ος Grégoire, IGC, 1922
15: After Προκόπιοϲ, nothing in Sherard; [---] CIG IV, 1856; [ὁ καὶ] Ramsay, 1897, Grégoire, IGC, 1922
17: .ΝΟϹΤΗϹΟΡΟΥ Sherard, 1716 ϹΟ overlap slightly in the original copy (BL Add. 10101) and markedly in the fair copy (BL Harl. 7509), from which Müller transcribed
ω, which appears in all the subsequent publications ; ἀνα[γ]νόστη[ς] Ῥούφ[---] CIG IV, 1856; ἀνα[γ]νόστη[ς ὁ] Ῥού[φου?] Ramsay, 1897; ἀνα[γ]νόστη(ς) Ὥρου Grégoire, IGC, 1922
18: ΕΠΙΑΤΡΟΥ Sherard, 1716
19: ΘΕΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΟϹ Sherard, 1716; Θεοφυλάκιος CIG IV, 1856, Ramsay, 1897; Θεοφύλακτος Grégoire, IGC, 1922
23: ΑΒΕΛΚΙΟΥ Sherard, 1716; Ἀβερκίου Ramsay, 1897; Ἀβεακίου Grégoire, IGC, 1922
English translation
Translation source: ALA 2004
[Witnesses?] of the things which have taken place and been confirmed under Theophylaktos, gloriosissimus, ex-prefect and imperial judge, in the first month of the fifteenth indiction. Theocharistos (scil. son) of Achaios(?); Nounechios (scil. son) of Phaboulios; Prokopios [and?] Theodoros. lector, (scil. sons?) of Rouphos, doctor(?); Theophylaktos, deacon; Marianos, deacon; Georgios the brother of Abelkios.
Bibliography
Transcription: Sherard, 1716 129v
Publication: CIG IV, 1856 8644 , whence Ramsay, 1897 431 , Grégoire, IGC, 1922 247 ; Roueché, ALA 91 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 633 , ALA 2004 91 , IAph2007 15.363.