Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

16.235. Funerary text

Description: White marble block in three fragments. A is broken on all sides, but preserves part of the right edge. B and C join; they are broken away above and to the right. No measurements

Text: Inscribed on the face

Letters: Standard forms, no measurements

Date: First to third century. (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Walls, ?north east

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1989)

Interpretive

A
[------] [------]
[---]Λ̣Ι̣Ι̣[...]Λ̣Ο̣Ι̣Ι̣Ο̣Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣ ̣Α̣Ν̣[c. 4]
[---]ΤΟΥ καὶ ὧν ἂν αὐτὸ[ς βου-]
[ληθῇ ---κατασκε]υασθέντα ὑπὸ ΤΟ[...]
[---κ]αὶ Κλαυδία Ἰουλί[α]
5[---]ἐ̣στιν δὲ καὶ ὁ παρα
[---]πλάτας προγονι-
[κός? ---]Ι̣Σ
[------]
B
[------]
[c. 5]Μ̣Α̣Ι̣Ι̣Σ̣[---]
[...ἀντ]ίγραφον εἰς τὸ [χρεοφυλάκιον---]
ΟΙ̣Ι̣Ι̣ Πύρρου Ζήνωνος το[ῦ c. 8]Ι̣Ν̣
( vac. ) μηνὸς Ξανδικο̣ῦ̣ ((leaf)) ( vac. )

Diplomatic

A
[------ ------]
[---]...[···]...........[····]
[---]ΤΟΥΚΑΙΩΝΑΝΑΥΤΟ[....-]
[....---.......]ΥΑΣΘΕΝΤΑΥΠΟΤΟ[···]
[---.]ΑΙΚΛΑΥΔΙΑΙΟΥΛΙ[.]
5[---].ΣΤΙΝΔΕΚΑΙΟΠΑΡΑ
[---]ΠΛΑΤΑΣΠΡΟΓΟΝΙ
[...---].Σ
[------]
B
[------]
[·····].....[---]
[···....]ΙΓΡΑΦΟΝΕΙΣΤΟ[............---]
Ο...ΠΥΡΡΟΥΖΗΝΩΝΟΣΤΟ[.········]..
      ΜΗΝΟΣΞΑΝΔΙΚ.. ❦       

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte M. Roueché

(A): . . . ] and whoever he may wish [ . . . ] having been constructed [ . . . ] and Claudia Julia [ . . . ] And the para- is [ . . . ] ?ancestral burying place [ . . .

(B): . . . ] the copy [has been deposited] in the [property archive [ . . . in the stephanephorate of x ]? Pyrrhos son of Zenon [ . . . ] in the month Xandikos.

Bibliography

Recorded: New York University expedition in 1989

Images

Fig. 1. A , B and C (Mossman Roueché, 1989)

Fig. 2. A (Mossman Roueché, 1989)