<rs type="textType" reg="funerary">Funerary</rs> inscription for Heraklides, Alexandros, and Apollonios, sons of Zenon

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

Rectangular white marble block (0.41 × 0.33 × 0.31), perhaps part of a sarcophagus front.

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face within a recessed panel, intruding onto the moulding; ll. 2-12 impinge on the right side moulding; initial letters of ll. 6 and 12 on the left side moulding; l. 13 on the lower moulding.

Description of Letters

0.027

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering), but before the edict of Caracalla (212).

Edition τὸν πλάτην κατεσκεύασαν Ἡρακλίδης Ζήνωνοςκαὶ Ἀλένξανδρος Ζήνωνοςκαὶ Ἀπολλώνιος Ζήνωνος ἐφ' ᾧ τεθήσονται οἱ κατεσκευάσαντες εἰς τὴν μέσην κλείνηνκαὶ γυναῖκες αὐτῶν ἄλλῳ δὲοὐδενὶ ἐξὸν τεθῆναι εἰς τὴνμέσην κλείνην εἰς τὰς παρ' ἑκάτερον κλείνας τεθήσονται τέκνα καὶ ἔγγονα καὶ γένηἔξεσται δὲ ἑκάστῳ φίλους θῖναι δύω χαίρεται ζῶσιν
Apparatus

l. 2, Ἀλένξανδρος Reinach

l. 3, Ἀπολλώνιος Reinach

l. 4, ΚΑΙ probably cut over erasure (deep letters)

ll. 5-6, κατεσκευάσαντες for κατασκευάσαντες

l. 6, ΝΤ a correction, cut over ΣΑ; first Ε added as part of a correction in a markedly early shape

l. 13, traces of final Ν seen by NYU

Translation

Heraclides son of Zenon, Alexandros son of Zenon, and Apollonios son of Zenon prepared the platform where those who prepared it and their wives will be buried in the middle burial place; no one else may be buried in the middle burial place. In the burial places on either side their children and grandchildren and families shall be buried; each shall be allowed to bury two friends there. Farewell, to the living.

Commentary

No commentary

Locations

Walls, West Gate: 'Traveaux neufs: Porte Ouest' (Gaudin); found by the NYU expedition during excavation of the Theatre. Unknown, necropolis. Museum (1977).

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (118); by the NYU expedition (71.48).

Bibliography

Published from Gaudin's squeeze by Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 270, no. 165, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 483.

Text Constituted From

Publication; Gaudin's squeeze (notebook 41); Preliminary transcription (Reynolds).

Photographs

Face (1977)

Representations

Gaudin squeeze 118