Description of Monument

Upper right corner of a white marble funerary stele (0.43 x 0.47 x 0.10) in the form of an aedicula, with simply moulded gable and plain acroteria, supported on columns with Corinthian capitals. Within the recess is the bust of a boy in relief.

Description of Text

ii is cut on either side of the bust and is presumably the original inscription of the monument; i is cut in irregular lettering on the gable.

Description of Letters

i: 0.01-0.02; square sigma and cursive omega; ii: in standard second- or third-century lettering, 0.02-0.025.

Date

i: Third/fourth century (formulae, penalty); ii Second/third century (lettering)

Edition τὸ μνημεῖον ἐστιν Εὐαρέστου τοῦ Ἀχέου εἰς ὃταφήσεται τὰ παιδία μου, ἑτέρῳδὲ οὐκ ἔξεστι, τολμήσας δέ τίς τινα ἐνθάψαι δώσε τῷ ἱερωτάτῳ ταμίῳ λίτραν ἀσήμου. ἐνθάδε κεῖταιοσ ταβερνάριος ντων

Translation a. The memorial belongs to Euarestus son of Acheus, in which my children will be buried, but no-one else is allowed; anyone who dares to bury anyone in it, let him give to the most sacred treasury a pound of pure bullion. b. Here lies tavern-keeper

Commentary

See discussion at IX.6; for the penalty, and its implications for the date, IX.5.

Found

Necropolis west of the city walls.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Museum.

History of Recording

Found by the NYU expedition in 1962 (62. 24).

Bibliography

Published by Roueché, no. 147. and plate xxxiv, whence 476, 577.

Text Constituted From

Copies (Reynolds, Roueché).

Photographs

Face (1977)

Category of Text

funerary.

Category of Monument

stele.