<rs type="textType" reg="Funerary">Funerary</rs> inscription for Hermas son of Nardos

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Left side of white marble block, broken away on the other three sides (0.66 × 0.62 × 0.66.

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face,

Letters

0.0175-0.0225; uneven in height, spacing, and lineation; the first iota in l. 1 added after completion of the word and was not observed by either Reinach or the MAMA expedition.

Date

Second half of first century A.D. (lettering)

Edition Ἑρμᾶ τοῦ Νάρδου διατεταγμένα ἐφ' ᾧ κηδευθῇ αὐτὸς μόνος ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς οὔτε κληρονόμος οὔτε διάδοχός μου ἐπεὶ ὁ ἐπιχειρήσας ἕτερόν τινα κηδεῦσαι ἀποτεισάτω τῷ δήμῳ δηνάρια γ καὶ εἰς τὸν κυριακὸν φίσκον δηνάρια γ ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἔσται τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀπόκειται ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὰ ἀρχεῖα ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Μάρκου Ἀντωνίου Ἀγελάου
Apparatus

l. 1, at end, Reinach read ΔΙΑΔ

l. 9, at end , Reinach read ΕΠ·

Reinach supplied more letters at ends of ll. 2–7

Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

No commentary yet (2007)

Locations

Unknown, probably East or South-East Cenetery Walls, South-east gate: re-used upside down in the construction of the gate, south side; the left side is obscured Findspot (1973)

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications; squeezes.

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (16); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition

Bibliography

Published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 281-282, no. 176; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 543, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 484

Photographs

Face (1973)
Shadowed area enhanced (1973)