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Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in Reynolds and Isik (2007).

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Description of Monument

White marble garland sarcophagus 2.12 × 0.94 × 0.89 with a central tabella (0.49 x 0.53); for full description see Isik 101.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the front. a beside a bust of the dead man; b on the upper moulding of the tabella (ll. 1-2) and within it. The text clearly began on the lid.

Letters

Neatly designed and cut, in the second-to-fourth-century style, although not perfectly aligned; 0.025; lunate ω in a.; ligatures: ΠΡ, l. 3; ΝΤ, ll. 4, 5; ΜΕ, l. 4; ΗΝ, l. 10; ΜΗΝ, l. 12; star for denarius.

Date

Perhaps late second to early third centuries (lettering).

Edition
ζῶ
καὶ προσαποτεισάτω τῇ θεῷ Ἀφροδείτῃ δηνάρια γ καὶ προσαποτεισάτω εἰς τὸ ἱερώτατον ταμεῖον δηνάρια Ϛ ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἔσται τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου τὸ ια Ἀπολλωνίου Παπίου μηνὸς Καίσαρος
Apparatus

l. 2, the figure is not quite certainly read.

Translation

a: I am alive

b.[...] and in addition to pay to the goddess Aphrodite 3,000 denarii, and in addition to pay to the sacred treasury (at Rome) 6,000 denarii, of which a third shall belong to the prosecutor. A copy of the inscribed text was deposited in the Property-archive in the eleventh stephanephorate of Apollonios son of Papias in the month of Caesar.

Commentary

This text offers a variant on the standard funerary formula which notably increases the size of the fine. The stephanephoros is not otherwise known at present.

Locations

Bouleuterion/Odeon, West Area: W. Bou. Ch. 5, Str. 1.. Unknown . Museum.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1964 (64.235; sarc. catalogue 35)

Bibliography

Published by Isik and Reynolds, no. 101

Photographs

Face (1978)
Face (1994)