Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.379. Funerary fragment.

Description: Fragment of a block with back but no edges (w: 0.32 × h: 0.49 × d: 0.245)

Text: Inscribed on the face, which is blackened.

Letters: Standard forms; 0.03. Diairesis on second Α, lines 2, 4, first Α, line 5; second Ι, l.6. Bar above denarius sign.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[---]Φ̣Ο̣Ι̣Ο̣[---]
[---]ΑΝ τῷ διαδ̣[όχῳ ---]
[---]τ̣οῦ στεφαν[---]
[---]Κ̣ΑΣΤΗΣ ἀγαθο[---]
5[--- σ?]ορῷ καὶ διαδο[χ---]
[--- ἐν] δὲ ταῖς ἰσώ[σταις κηδευθήσονται? ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς]
[ἕξει? ἐξουσί]αν ἐνθά[ψαι τινα? ἐπεὶ ὁ τοῦτο τολμήσας ἔσται]
[ἀσεβὴς κ]α̣ι ἐπάρατ[ος καὶ τυμβωρύχος καὶ προσαποτείσει ---]
[--- ἀργυρί]ου (δηνάρια) ͵Ϛ ὧ̣[ν τὸ τρίτον ἔσται? τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος]
10[---]Τ̣ΜΕ̣Γ̣[---]

Diplomatic

[---]....[---]
[---]ΑΝΤΩΔΙΑ.[...---]
[---].ΟΥΣΤΕΦΑΝ[---]
[---].ΑΣΤΗΣΑΓΑΘΟ[---]
5[---.]ΟΡΩΚΑΙΔΙΑΔΟ[.---]
[---..]ΔΕΤΑΙΣΙΣΩ[................................]
[..........]ΑΝΕΝΘΑ[..............................]
[.......].ΙΕΠΑΡΑΤ[...............................---]
[---......]ΟΥ 𐆖 ͵Ϛ.[.............................]
10[---].Μ..[---]

Apparatus

3: ? Στεφανος, ? στεφανήφορος ?
4: ? name
10: ? μηνὸς

Translation

. . . ]heir [ . . . ] in the niches [. . . no one else will have authori]ty to bury [ anyone. The offender will be considered impious] and accursed [etc. and will pay 6000 silver (?) denarii of which [ etc. . . .

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 72.93

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)


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