Description of Monument

A white marble sarcophagus lid (0.30 × 2.19 × 0.99) which was intact when the MAMA expedition found it, but is now in two halves and chipped.

Description of Text

Inscribed along the front edge. It is not obvious at what point in the sentence order to take the letters inscribed on the projecting supports beneath the rim (on which l.1 is cut); these letters are shown below between pairs of double verticals ||.

Description of Letters

Rough, cursive, and fluctuating wildly in size (width rather than height): 0.025-0.035.

Date

Third-fourth century (formulae, penalty).

Edition ἡ σορός ἐστι καὶ ὁ τόπος Μάρκου Μάρκου Μάρκων Αὐρηλίων ἀδελφῶν Περιτιανοῦ καὶ Εὐτύχης καὶ Ἡράκλειοςκληρονόμοι Περιτιανοῦ Κωριδίουτοῦ πατρὸς αὐτῶν· ὅτις ἂν δὲ τολμήσι ποτὲ ἀνύξε τὸ σκεῦος τοῦτο χωρὶς τῶν κληρονόμων ἀρσενικῶνδώσι τῷ ταμίῳ χρυσοῦ λίτρας δύω.

Apparatus

l.1. omitted one of the initial Μs.

Περιτιανοῦ . Both Fellows and read the final sigma in this line.

l.2. It is not obvious where the letters ΡΙΔΙΟΥ on the second of the projecting supports should be read. read ΠΕ where we read ΠΟ at the end of what we are numbering as line 3, and then ΡΙΔΙΟΥ, suggesting, very tentatively, περιιδεῖν. If we assume that the cutter wrote on the two supports consecutively before returning to the recessed area, this provides an ending for the otherwise baffling ΚΩ (on which see Robert); but ΚΩΡΙΔΙΟΥ is not otherwise known.

l.4. The last word is actually written in line with l.5.

τε: read ΤΟ.

κληρονόμων: did not see the second Ο, which is cut on the side of the projecting support.

1.5. read ΔΟΣΙ and ΔΥΟΥ, but there is no doubt about our readings.

Translation The coffin and the place belong to the brothers Marci Aurelii Peritianus and Eutyches and Heracleius, heirs of their father Peritianus son of Coridius; whoever should ever dare to open this sarcophagus other than the male heirs will give to the treasury two pounds of gold.

Commentary

Commentary: See discussion at IX.8; for the penalty, and its implications for the date, IX.5.

Found

Village: 'in a house wall' ; found by the NYU expedition during the reconstruction of the dig-house.

Original Location

Unknown.

Last Recorded Location

Museum.

History of Recording

Copied hastily by Fellows in 1840; recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Fellows, no. 67 whence 2850e (p.1119); by Cormack, from the MAMA records, 8, no. 580, whence L. Robert, 13, 18, 1966.412; by Roueché, no. 149 and plate xxxv, whence 460.

Text Constituted From

Publications; copies (Reynolds, Roueché).

Photographs

Complete (1973)

Left end

Centre

Right end

Right end (1978)

Category of Text

funerary.

Category of Monument

sarcophagus lid.