Description of Monument

Fragment of right side and perhaps lower right corner of a white marble base of a sarcophagus front (0.17 × 0.09 × 0.075).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

Probably second to third centuries A.D.; 0.018. Star for denarius, l. 3; / before the figure.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).

Edition Διονυσίου Το ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐξουσίανe.g. ἐνθάψαι τινα ἐπει ὁστις ἐναντίον τι ποιήση ἀπο τείσει τῷ ἱερωτά τῷ ταμείῳ δηνάρια α ὧν τό τριτόν μέρος ἔσται τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος

Translation

of Dionysios Το and no-one else shall have the right to bury anyone here since whoever acts contrary to this provision shall pay to the most sacred Roman treasury one thousand denarii of which a third shall go to the procurator

Commentary

The first surviving line probably contains a name from a list of those who may be buried in the tomb; from the third we have the provision against burial of others not already specified which have been quite elaborately set out, and the punishment may have involved payment to other local bodies in addition to the Roman treasury. It is possible that Aphrodisians knew the distinction between the Treasury of the Roman People (ταμιεῖον = aerarium) and the Treasury of the Emperor (κυριακός φίσκος) but one cannot be sure of this at the likely date. The size of fine is smaller than was often the case at Aphrodisias.

Locations

Stray find in City, Village Unknown (1977) Museum (1977)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1964 (64.553)

Photographs

Face (1977)

66.1.81