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

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 (2.10 × 0.75 × 0.35); from sarcophagus.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.03-0.035

Date

Second century A.D. (nomenclature, lettering)

Edition ὁ βωμὸς σὺν ταῖς εἰσώσταις καὶ τῇ ἐπικειμένῃ σορῷ Ἀχιλλέως Τιβερίου Κλαυδίου Ἀττάλου συνκλητικοῦ πραγματευτοῦ καὶ Τατιανῆς γυναικὸς Ἀχιλλέως καὶ Ἀχιλλείης τέκνου αὐτῶν εἰς ἣν σορὸν κεκήδευται Τατιανή ἑτέρῳ δὲ οὐδενὶ ἐξέσται κηδευθῆναι ἐν τῇ σορῷ ἢ μόνῳ Ἀχιλλεῖ καὶ Ἀχιλλείῃ τέκνῳ αὐτοῦ ἐὰν δέ τις μετὰ τὸ ἀποθεωθῆναι τοὺς προδηλουμένους τολμήσῃ ἀνοίξας τὴν σορὸν μετακεινῆσαι σωμάτειον ἢ ὀστέα ἢ ἕτερόν τινα ἐνθάψαι ἢ ἐκκόψαι ἐπιγραφὴν ἐξώλη ἀπόλοιτο σὺν τέκνοις καὶ παντὶ τῷ γένει τῶν δ′ εἰσωστῶν ἐξουσίαν οὐδεὶς ἕτερος ἕξει πρὸς τὸ συνχωρῆσαί τινα ταφῆναι ἢ μόνος Ἀχιλλεὺς καὶ Ἀχιλλεία τέκνον αὐτοῦ
Apparatus

ll. 9-10, ἐξώλης MAMA; ἐξώλη Robert (Hellenica 13, loc. cit below, with examples)

Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

Robert (BCH 1928, 44, and Hellenica 13, 174) pointed out that this man is agent of the senator, not his son, as suggested by Boeckh, and accepted by Reinach, and Vagts, among others although the point had already been made by E. Groag, Jahreshefte 10 (1907) 297, n. 52

Locations

Walls, West: In 1972 re-used in the wall of a cistern against the west wall, by the first farmhouse south of the west gate; the cistern (which also contained fragments of MAMA 564) was subsequently cemented. Unknown necropolis Findspot

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications.

History of Recording

A copy provided by Raoul-Rochette; by K&R (no notebook entry); recorded by Gaudin (128); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh, from Raoul-Rochette's copy, CIG 2831 with a comment at CIG II 1115.; by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 264, no. 158, whence L. Robert, BCH 1928, 414; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 570, whence Robert, Hellenica 13, 131-133 and 173 (l. 10), BE 1966:410, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 403

Photographs

Left end (1972)
Centre left (1972)
Centre right (1972)
Right end (1972)