<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> fragment

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

English French German Ancient Greek Transliterated Greek Modern Greek Italian Latin Spanish Turkish AsiaTurkeyAphrodisiasGeyre 2007-04-04GBDONE2007-03-14Charlotte TupmanHand tidied 2005-12-13Elliott HallBatch converted Word2XML

Description of Monument

Base of a white marble sarcophagus, with all the upper chest broken away (2.24 x 0.27).

Description of Text

Inscribed along the lower edge.

Letters

Standard forms; 0.02-0.025

Date

Perhaps second century A.D. (lettering)

Edition τὸ ἐράριον τὸ μνημεῖον Αἰλίων Ἀμμίας καὶ Παππίου τῶν τέκνων τοῦ Παπίου τούτου ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλακιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου τὸ γ Τιβέριου Φλαβίου Χαιρέου μηνὸς Ξανδικοῦ

Translation

[ . . . will pay to] the aerarium The memorial of Aelia Ammia and Aelius Pappias the children of Papias. A copy of this was deposited in the property-archive in the third stephanephorate of Ti(berius) Fl(avius) Xaireas, month Xandikos.

Commentary

The nomenclature fits a date earlier than the Edict of Caracalla. The reference to the aerarium is unusual (12.320 =MAMA 556b, & LR cj. in 12.524 =MAMA 559

Locations

Necropolis, North-east, near chamber tomb Findspot Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1994 (Sarcophagus Index 451)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1994)