<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> inscription for Aurelius Hermes and family, establishing a <rs type="textType">foundation</rs>

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; remaining fragment 0.40 x 0.65 x 0.26 (MAMA).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.025

Date

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

Edition Ἑρμοῦ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ οὐδεὶς δὲ ἕτερος μετὰ δὲ τὸ ἀφηρωϊσθῆναι τὸ μνημεῖον οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ἐπιλῦσαι καὶ ἀνοῖξαι τὴν προδηλουμένην σορὸν καὶ ἐνθάψαι τινὰ ἢ] ἐκθάψαι τῶν σωματείων ἐπεὶ εἴ τις τούτων τι τολμήσας ἢ ἐπιχειρήσας ἢ ἐργοδοτήσας ποιήσει παρὰ τὴν γνώμην καὶ βούλησιν ἐμοῦ ἔσται ἐπάραττος καὶ ἀσεβὴς καὶ τυμβωρύχος καὶ οὔτε ἡ γῆ αὐτῷ καρπὸν ἐνένκῃ οὔτε ἡ θάλασσα αὐτῷ πλωτὴ γενήσεται σπορά τε παίδων αὐτοῦ ἐξολεῖται καὶ ἑτέρα διὰ γένους οὐ γενήσεται καὶ ζῶντι μὲν αὐτῷ ὅσα θεοὶ κατὰ ἀνθρώπων τεθείκασιν θανόντι δὲ οὐδὲ ἡ γῆ παρέξει αὐτῷ τάφον καὶ οὐδὲν ἧττον ἔσται ὑπεύθυνος προστείμῳ τῇ ἱερωτάτῃ θεῷ Ἀφροδείτῃ εἰς κόσμον αὐτῆς δηνάρια πεντακισχίλια ποιησαμένων τὴν τοῦ προστείμου ἐκδίκησιν τῶν κατ′ ἐκείνου τοῦ καιροῦ νεοπυῶν εἴ τις δὲ καὶ ἐκκόψει τὴν ἐπιγραφὴν τοῦ ὑποσορίου ὑπεύθυνος ἔστω τῷ προστείμῳ καὶ ταῖς ἀραῖς ταῖς ὑπογεγραμμέναις ἀλλὰ μὴν καὶ τῇ ἱερωτάτῃ βουλῇ διαφέρει καὶ αὐτὴ ἡ περὶ τούτου ἐκδικία διὰ τὸ ἐπὶ ταύτῃ τῇ ἐκδικία ἀνατεθέικέναι ἐμὲ αὐτῇ εἰς αἰωνίους αὐτῆς νομὰς ἀργυρίου ἀρχαῖα δηνάρια πεντακισχίλια καθὼς διὰ τῆς ἀναθέσεως ἧς πεπύημαι ἐπὶ τῇ ἀναστάσει τῶν ἀνδριάντων ἐμοῦ τε καὶ Πολυχρονίας τῆς γυναικός μου καὶ τοῦ υἱου Ἀπολλωνίου δηλοῦται προσβαινόντων ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐργαστηρίου μου εἰς τὴν βασιλικὴν ἐν ἀριστέροις ἐν δὲ ταῖς ὑποκειμέναις τῷ προγεγραμμένῳ βωμῷ εἰσώσταις ἐνταφήσονται οὓς ἂν ἐγὼ ὁ Ἀπολλώνιος βουληθῶ ἢ διατάξωμαι ὁμοίως οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐξουσίαν τοῦ ἐπιλῦσαι καὶ ἀνοῖξαι καὶ ἐνθάψαι τινὰ ἢ ἐκθάψαι τῶν ἐνοντων σωματείων εἰς τὴν παρακειμένην τούτῳ τῷ μνήματι σορὸν ἐποῦσαν κατὰ τὸν πλάταν ἐν ἀριστέροις ἐν ᾗ κεκήδευται Αὐρήλιός τε Ἑρμῆς Ζήνωνος καὶ ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ Ἑρμῆς ἐνταφήσεται δὲ μόνη εἰς την προδηλουμένην Αὐρηλία Τατεία Διδύμου ἡ γεναμένη γυνὴ τοῦ Ἑρμοῦ καὶ οὐδεὶς ἕτερος τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ταύτης ἀντίγραφον ἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ χρεωφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου τὸ β Ἀττάλου υἱοῦ Μενάνδρου μηνὸς δωδεκάτου
Apparatus

The letters highlighted are those on the fragment recorded by MAMA

l. 19, ΤΙΒ, ΤΒ, Sherard; ΤΟΥ Picenini. Τὸ β cj Reinach (p. 223)

Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

No commentary yet (2007)

Locations

Walls, South-east: 'In urbis muro ad austrum duobus in marmoribus quadratis punctim positis' (Picenini) Unknown Findspot (1934)

Text Constituted From

Publications; notebooks.

History of Recording

Copied in 1705 by Picenini (10102, 22-22v and, from Tisser, 66v-67), whence Sherard (10101, 34-35); a copy obtained by Raoul-Rochette. Copied by Deering (13v-14, no. 44). Fragment recorded by the MAMA expedition; not reported subsequently

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh, from Sherard and Raoul-Rochette's papers, CIG 2826, whence Laum, no. 107, discussion by Cormack, Notes 15 and 61 fig. 9; published by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 577, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 528

Photographs

None

Representations

Deering notebook 13v
Deering notebook 14