Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.369. Funerary inscription for Artemon

Description: White marble block, the lower of at least two blocks, complete but chipped along all edges, and with all four corners broken off, the lower two extensively. No measurements

Text: Inscribed on the face, from which a moulding on the left side has been erased.

Letters: First-second centuries CE: uneven in height, c. 0.02, in depth of trenches and in spacing, both between letters and between lines; the final two letters are aligned separately, 0.035

Date: Late first century CE (lettering, prosopography, material context)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

Interpretive

Τὸ ἐν ἀριστεροῖς μέρος ( vac. 1)
ἥμισυ τοῦ πλάτα καταβαι-
νόντων ἔστιν Ἀρτέμω-
νος τοῦ Ἀδράστου τοῦ Με-
5νάνδρου τοῦ Μαρσύου ( vac. 1)
τοῦ Ἑρμογένου καὶ διαδό-
χων αὐτοῦ καὶ ὧν ἂν αὐ-
τὸς βουληθῇ. Ζῇ

Diplomatic

ΤΟΕΝΑΡΙΣΤΕΡΟΙΣΜΕΡΟΣ  
ΗΜΙΣΥΤΟΥΠΛΑΤΑΚΑΤΑΒΑΙ
ΝΟΝΤΩΝΕΣΤΙΝΑΡΤΕΜΩ
ΝΟΣΤΟΥΑΔΡΑΣΤΟΥΤΟΥΜΕ
5ΝΑΝΔΡΟΥΤΟΥΜΑΡΣΥΟΥ  
ΤΟΥΕΡΜΟΓΕΝΟΥΚΑΙΔΙΑΔΟ
ΧΩΝΑΥΤΟΥΚΑΙΩΝΑΝΑΥ
ΤΟΣΒΟΥΛΗΘΗΖΗ

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

The left-hand half of the tomb's platform as you pass alongside belongs to Artemon, son of Adrastos the son of Menandros the son of Marsyas the son of Hermogenes, and his successors and any person whom he wished. He lives.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 89.d .

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1989)

Fig. 2. Face (M. Roueché, 1989)