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

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Four adjoining fragments of a white marble block (together 1.34 x 0.395 x 0.36).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face.

Letters

0.03. Ligatures NH, ll. 1, 4; MH, l. 5; HN, l. 8

Date

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

Edition καὶ ἡ ἐπὶ τοῦ βωμοῦ σορὸς ἐν ἧ κεκήδευται και οὓς ἄν αὐτὴ βουλήθῇ ὥστε μηδένα σχεῖν ἐξουσίαν κληρόνομον αὐτῆς ἢ ἐκεινῶν κληρονόμων ε τοῦ βώμοῦ ἢ τῶν εἰσώστων ἢ τῆς σοροῦ μηδένα τρόπον ἐπεὶ ὁ ἐπιχειρήσας διε ἀσεβὴς καὶ τυμβωρύχος καὶ ἐπάρατος καὶ προσαποτεισάτω θεᾷ Ἀφροδίτῃ καὶ δισχειλια ἐστιν δὲ καὶ μέρος τῇς τοῦ Πάπίου σοροῦ τεθῆναι βούλομαι ἐν τῇ σορῷ μετὰ τοῦ υἱοῦ μηδεὶς ἐχέτω ἐξουσίαν θάψαι σωμάτειον ε τῇ Ἀφροδεισιέων ἑξακὶς χίλια καὶ τυμβωρύχος τω τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀντίγραφον ἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ ἀρχεῖον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου ωνος μηνὸς Ξανδικοῦ
Apparatus

Some letters read by Loew but not by MAMA are now readable again.

Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

No commentary yet (2007)

Locations

Walls, West, central stretch, near 8.31 and 8.27 Unknown: Necropolis Museum (1977)

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications.

History of Recording

Copied by Loew; recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition, together with three further fragments (75.138, 75.139, 75.140).

Bibliography

Published by Franz, from Loew, Ann. d. Inst. 19, 1847, 115, no. b.11, whence Waddington, LBW 1642; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 573, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 549

Photographs

Upper and lower left fragments (1975)
Upper right fragment (1975)
Lower fragments (1973)
Lower left fragment (1977)