Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

15.380. Funerary fragment

Description: Fragment from the lower moulding of a white marble sarcophagus front (w: 0.35 × h: 0.15 × d: 0.15).

Text: Inscribed on two planes.

Letters: 0.025; sigma with an internal vertical

Date: Third century CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Stray

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

[------]
[---]Μ[...]Α[.] π̣ο̣ι̣ήσας Π̣[---]
[ἔσται? ἀσεβὴ]ς καὶ ἐπάρατος καὶ τ[υμβωρύχος καὶ? προσαποτείσει ---]
[θεᾷ? Ἀφροδεί]τῃ εἰς χρυσιακὸν̣ [κό]σ̣μ̣[ον ἀργυρίου? δηνάρια?]
[δισχείλια?] πεντακόσια ὧν τὸ τρίτ̣ον̣ [ἔσται τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος ---]

Diplomatic

[------]
[---]Μ[···]Α[·]...ΗΣΑΣ.[---]
[..........]ΣΚΑΙΕΠΑΡΑΤΟΣΚΑΙΤ[.........................---]
[..........]ΤΗΕΙΣΧΡΥΣΙΑΚΟ.[..]..[.................]
[.........]ΠΕΝΤΑΚΟΣΙΑΩΝΤΟΤΡΙ.Ο.[....................---]

Apparatus

3: For the golden adornment of the goddess see 13.109
4: For the restored quantity see e.g. 11.38, 17.82

English translation

Translation by: Joyce M. Reynolds

. . . whoever] has done [anything of the kind is to be held sacrilegious, accursed and a tomb-breaker, [and in addition is to pay to the goddess Aphrodi]te to provide her golden adornments [ . . . ? 2]500 [? silver denarii] of which one third [ shall belong to the prosecutor . .m.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 72.95

Images

Fig. 1. Face (M. Roueché, 1977)


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