<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> inscription

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Left side fragment of a white marble tabella ansata 0.45 × 0.305 × 0.15 .

Description of Text

inscribed on the upper moulding (l.1) and within the panel; the surfaces are badly damaged

Letters

0.018. Ligatures: ΗΝ ll.1, 4; diaireis on second A, l.7.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition ΤΗΝ ΥΙ ἀρσενικὰ ΚΑ ΛΤΚΟΥ καὶ τὸν συν- κος Εὐτύχην καὶ ΘΩΝ ἐπαξομαι ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξειἐξουσίαν ἐνθάψαι τινὰ ἤ τι μετακεινῆσαι ἐπεὶ ἔστω ἀσεβὴς
Apparatus

Reinach could see less on the left side

l. 3, Ρ[.......]ΚΑΙΤΟΝΣΥ[ ... Reinach

l. 4, Κ[... ] Εὐτύχην ΚΑ[ ... Reinach

l.5 Θ[........]ΣΟΜΑΙ ἕτε[ρος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει] Reinach ? κα]θ᾿ὧν διατάξομαι ? CMR

l. 6, ἐξου[σίαν] Reinach

Translation

[. . . ]male (children) Eutyches [ . . .] I will bring, [no-one] else [ will have] authority to bury anyone or [ . . .] may he be (deemed) impious

Commentary

Elements from a funerary imprecation. This might be associated with the sarcophagus lid 11.54 (=MAMA 580).

Locations

Unknown City, Village: 'Mur de la maison en face la fontaine du gymnase' (Gaudin); stray find (NYU). Museum

Text Constituted From

Publication; Preliminary transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (107); by the NYU expedition in 1972 (72.485)

Bibliography

Published by Reinach from Gaudin, REG 19, 1906, 283, no. 178, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 478

Photographs

Face (1977)