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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 block (1.37 × 0.60 × 1.37) complete on all sides.

Description of Text

a: is inscribed at the left side of the stone, and must have continued from an adjacent block; b: is inscribed to the right and must have continued onto the next block. Both texts must have begun on upper blocks.

Letters

a: 0.02-0.025; b: 0.02-0.025. Ligatures: ΜΝ, l.2; ΗΝ l.7; ΜΗ l.10

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition ΟΥΚΑΙΤΗΟΙΝΙΑ κατὰ τὰς δοθείσας αὐτῷ ὑπὸ τετράκι τοῦ Ὑψικλέους τῶν τόπων συνχωρήσεις διὰ τοῦ χρεοφυλακίου ὧν ἐν μὲν τῇ σορῷ τέθαπται Ἀριστοκλῆς Ἀριστοκλέους τοῦ Ζήνωνος τοῦ Θεαιτήτου ὁ υἱὸς αὐ τοῦ ταφήσονται δὲ Ἀριστοκλῆς ὁ καὶ Ζήνων καὶ Ἄπφιον Ἀ τοῦ Ἡρώδου ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ ἐν δὲ ταῖς εἰσώσταις ταφήσονται Μένιππός τεἈριστοκλέους τοῦ Ζή νωνος τοῦ Θεαιτήτου καὶ οὓς ἂν Ζήνων ὁ καὶ Ἀριστοκλῆς καὶ Μένιππος ὁ προδηλούμενος βουληθῶσιν ταύτης τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου τὸ δ´ Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Ὑψικλέους μηνὸς Ἰουλιήου τοῦ Γορτυνίου τοῦ Ἀριστοκλέους ἤθει καὶ σεμνότητι βίου ὑπερβεβληκὼς πρὸ ὥρας ἄρτι τετελεύτηκεν προσήκει δὲ τοὺς συνγενεῖς τῶν τετελευτηκότων παραμυθεῖσθαι φιλτάτων ἀποβολῆς διὰ ταῦτα δεδόχθαι τετειμῆσθαι μὲν καὶ μετηλλακχότα ταῖς πρώταις τειμαῖς Ἀριστοκλέα Ἀριστοκλέους τοῦ Ζήνωνος τοῦ Θεαιτήτου παραμυθήσασθαι δὲ τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ Ἀριστοκλέα ἐπὶ ταῖς τῆς τύχης συμφοραῖς ταῖς τελεσθείσαις Γονεὺς Μητροδόρου τοῦ Γονέως πρῶτος ἄρχων Μᾶρκος Ἰούλιος Πύρρου γραμματεὺς δήμου
Apparatus

a: l. 1, ... Ο.ΗΙΑΚΑΤΑ Waddington

b: l. 7, ΚΕΛΑ lapis

b l. 9, at end, ΤΕ Sherard, Fellows, Kubitschek, Buresch; ΓΕ Waddington, Cormack; ΤΕΛ Reinach

Translation

a: [...] in accordance with the areas ceded [to him by ..?.. son of ..?.., fourth of the name from Hypsikles and recorded in the Property-archive. Of these, Aris[tokles son of Aristokles the] son of Zenon the son of Theaitetos, his son, has been buried in the sarcophagus and [in it also shall be buried Ari]stokles son of Zenon and Apphion daughter of A[..?.. the son of ..?.. the son of] Herodes, his wife; and in the [subsisiary burial places shall be buried Me]nippos son of Aristokles the son of Ze[non the son of Theaitetos] and whomsoever Zenon and Aristokles and the afore]mentioned Menippos wish. A copy [of this inscription was deposited in the Property-Archive in the] fourth stephanephorate of Tiberius Claudius Hypsikles [ ..?..] in the month of July.

b: [... ?the son] of Gortynios the son of Aristokles [..?..] out[standing in character and respectability of life [who has just] died [prematurely], it is fitting to console [the parents of those who have died, grieving for the] loss of their loved ones. For this reason [it was agreed that Aristo]kles son of

Aristokles son of Ze[non ?son of Theaitetos] should be honoured even after death with [the first honours] and his father [Aristokles] should be offered consoltation for the accidents of fate which have occurred. Goneus son of Metrodoros son of Go[neus first archon], M(arcus) Iulius Pyrros being secretary [of the People]

Commentary

No commentary yet (2007)

Locations

Probably west or north Necropolis Walls, North: at the west end of the Stadium Findspot (1973)

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications.

History of Recording

Copied in 1705 by Picenini (10102, 13v and 53) and by Sherard, (10101, 24); by Fellows; by Waddington in 1850; by K&R (no notebook entry); recorded by Gaudin (130); recorded by the MAMA expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh, from Sherard, CIG 2836 and 2776; by Fellows no. 52 and 28, whence CIG p. 1111, (b) Bailie, no. 55; Waddington, LBW 1633a and 1633b, whence discussed by Buresch, 'Die griechische Trostbeschlüsse', RhM 49, 1894, 424-460, 428-429, by O.Gottwald, 'Zu den gr. Trostbeschlüssen,', Commentationes Vindobonenses 3 (1937), 5-18, 10, by L. Robert, Ét. Anat. 102; mentioned by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, no. 11a and 11b; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, nos. 541 (a) and 409 (b), whence L. Robert, Hellenica 13, 208, 231 (b ll. 3-4, 9), BE 1966.383, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 427 and 22.

Photographs

a and b (1973)
a and b (1973)