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Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble sarcophagus with moulding above and below (2.03 × 0.74 × 0.76) and side pilasters. Fluted façade, with tabella ansata; there are gorgonaia on the two ends.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the upper moulding of the tabella (l. 1), on the panel (ll. 2-14) on the lower moulding of the tabella (l. 15) and on the lower moulding of the façade (l. 16).

Letters

0.0175-0.02

Date

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

Edition κηδευθήσονται ὁ προγεγραμμένος καὶ Αἰλία Ἀντωνία Νείκη ἡ καὶ Τατία ἡ θυγάτηρ αὐτοῦ ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ἐνθάψαι τινὰ ἢ ἐκθάψαι τοὺς προγεγραμμένους ἐπεὶ ἔστω ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπάρατος καὶ τυμβωρύχος καὶ προσαποτεισάτω εἰς τὸ ἱερώτατον ταμεῖον ἀργυρίου δηνάρια δισχείλια πεντακόσια ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἔσται τοῦ ἐκγδικήσαντος τῶν δὲ ὑπὸ τὴν σορὸν ὑποκειμένων ἰσωστῶν ἕξουσιν ἐξουσίαν Αὐρήλιος Θησσεὺς ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ Ἑρμέρωτος καὶ Αὐρηλία Χαριδημὶς ἡ τεκοῦσα τοῦ Θησέως τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Ὑψικλέους γ τοῦ Μενάνδρου μηνὸς ι
Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

No translation yet (2007)

Locations

City, Village: 'In a house yard' (MAMA) Unknown: necropolis Museum

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Beard, Reynolds); publication.

History of Recording

Copied by Texier; by Loew; by K&R (no notebook reference); recorded by Gaudin (xx); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (Sarcophagus catalogue 23)

Bibliography

Published by Texier, As. Min. iii 165-166; by Franz, from Loew, Ann. d. Inst. 19, 1847, 114-115, no. b.10, whence LBW 1631; mentioned by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 258, no. 151; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 568, whence BE 1966:408, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 408

Photographs

Face (1978)