<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> inscription for Aurelius Eumachos Apellas

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 (1.625 x 1.11 x depth not measurable)

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.03

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition Αὐρήλιος Εὔμαχος Ἀπελλᾶ τοῦ ος τοῦ Ζήνωνος τοῦ Εὐδάμου Εὔδαμος κατεσκεύασεν τὸν βωμὸν καὶ τὴν ἐπικειμένην αὐτῶ σορὸν ἐφ' ᾧ ἐν μὲν τῇ σορῷ ταφήσεται Εὔμαχος ὁ προδηλούμενος καὶ Αὐρηλία Τατία Παπίου τοῦ Περείτου Πανκράτους ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ Αὐρήλιος Διονύσιος ἑξάκι τοῦ Χρυσογόνου ὁ Τατίας τῆς Παπίου υἱὸς καὶ Αὐρήλιοι Ἀπελλᾶς καὶ Εὐμαχιανὴ τὰ τέκνα αὐτοῦ καὶ Αὐρηλία Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Ἀχιλλέως υἱοῦ Τολμίδου ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ ἐν δὲ ταῖς ὑποκειμέναις εἰσώσταις ταφήσονται οὓς ἂν Εὔμαχος βουληθῇ καὶ διατάξηται τεθῆναι ἐν αὐταῖς καὶ ἔκγονα αὐτοῦ μόνα ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἐξουσίαν ἕξει ἐνθάψαι τινὰ ἐν τῇ σορῷ οὔτε μετακεινῆσαι αὐτὴν οὔτε παραχωρῆσαι οὐδενί οὔτε τὸν βωμὸν οὔτε εἰσώστην ἀπ′ αὐτοῦ οὐδὲ τρόπον ἐφευρεῖν ᾧ ἐξαλλοτριωθῇ κατὰ παρεύρεσιν οὐδεμίαν ἀλλὰ μετὰ τὸ ταφῆναι τοὺς προγεγραμμένους πάντας ἀφηρωΐσθαι τὸ μνημεῖον ἐὰν δέ τις ἐπιχειρήσῃ ἢ ἐνθάψαι τινὰ ἐν τῇ σορῷ ἢ ἐν ταῖς εἰσώσταις ἢ μετακεινῆσαι τὴν σορὸν ἢ ὑπεναντίον τι τοῖς προγεγραμμένοις ποιῆσαι ἔστω ὅ τε ποιήσας ὅ τε ἀναδεξάμενος τυμβωρύχος καὶ ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπάρατος καὶ προσαποτεισάτωσαν ὅ τε ποιήσας ὅ τε ἀναδεξάμενος τῷ ταμείῳ τοῦ δήμου Ῥωμαίων ἀργυρίου δηνάρια μύρια καὶ οὐδὲν ἔλαττον ἔστω ἀφηρωϊσμένον τὸ ἡρῶον μετὰ τὸ τεθῆναι τοὺς προγεγραμμένους πάνταςτὸ τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀντίγραφον ἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Γλύκωνος πεντάκι τοῦ Ἀρχιμήδους μηνὸς Τραϊανοῦ Σεβαστοῦ
Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

The text began on a block to the left.

Locations

Unknown Walls, South-east: 'in muro, literis majusculis, part underground' (Sherard); re-used in the south east stretch, below 8.113 MAMA 435, near 12.539 MAMA 503, 12.502 464. Findspot (1973)

Text Constituted From

Publications, Preliminary transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Copied in 1705 by Picenini (10102.26v, and, from Tisser, 76) and by Sherard (10101, 15v); by Deering (7v, no 31); by Fellows; by Bailie: see Researches, 53-63, with a description of how he had the stone cleared, (under the influence of a noon-day sun in the month of August); by Waddington; by Loew; by Reichel (RI.31-31v, Abklatsch 54); recorded by Gaudin (139); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh, from Sherard, CIG 2834; by Fellows, Acct. 336-339, no. 44, whence p. 1116, by Bailie, Fasc. ii 45-47 and 307-315, no. 74. Mentioned by Franz, from Loew, a.15. Published by Waddington, LBW 1632; mentioned by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 267, no. 162; published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 559, whence Hellenica 13, 211 (l. 16);, BE 1966:406, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 448

Photographs

Face (1973)
Face (1973)

Representations

Deering notebook 7v
Reichel notebook I, 31
Reichel notebook I, 31v