<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> inscription for Marcus Aurelius Molossos

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 with a smooth face, a moulded rim below (0.99 x 0.81 x 0.28).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face; the text must have begun on a block to the left.

Letters

Standard forms; 0.026.

Date

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

Edition κατεσκεύασεν Μᾶρκος Ἀντώνιος Μολοσσὸς καὶ οὓς ἂν αὐτὸς βούληται ἢ διατάξηται κατὰ τὴν δοθεῖσαν αὐτῶ τοῦ πλάτα συνχώρησιν ὑπὸ τετράκι τοῦ Καλλίππου νεωτέρου διὰ τοῦ χρεοφυλακίου ἐν ᾧ κεκήδευται λύπτου ἡ γενομένη γυνὴ αὐτοῦ κηδευθήσονται δὲ Μολοσσὸς καὶ Ἰουλιανὴ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ἐνθάψαι τινὰ ἢ ἐκθάψαι χωρὶς Μολοσσοῦ καὶ Ἰουλιανῆς μόνων ἐπὶ ὁ παρὰ ταῦτά τι ἐπιχειρήσας ἔστω ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπάρατος καὶ τυνβωρύχος καὶ προσαποτεισάτω τῷ Καίσαρος φίσκῳ δηνάρια Ϛ ὧν τὸ τρίτον μέρος ἔσται τοῦ ἐγδικήσαντος ταφήσονται δὲ οἷς ἂν αὐτὸς βουλήσομαι ἢ διατάξομαι ἢ δωτίνην δώσω τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀντίγραφον ἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου μηνὸς Ξανδικοῦ
Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

No commentary yet (2007)

Locations

Unknown Walls, North-west: re-used in the standing stretch north of the West gate, with 12.1108 MAMA 545, 12.1107 MAMA 554. Findspot (1973)

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publications; Kubitschek.

History of Recording

Copied by Fellows; part copied by Waddington; copied by K&R (K III.6, Abklatsch 88); recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published by Fellows, Acct. 346, no. 49, whence CIG 2850b (pp. 1117-1118); part by Waddington, LBW 1643; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 544, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 422

Photographs

Face (1973)
Face (1973)

Representations

Kubitschek notebook III, 5c