Description of Monument

White marble sarcophagus (2.07 × 0.77 × 0.84) and sarcophagus lid (1.66 × 0.30 × 0.73), which is broken to left.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the lid (l. 1) and on the sarcophagus (ll. 2 ff)

Letters

0.0225-0.03

Date

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

Edition ἡ σορός ἐστιν Αὐρηλίας Μελτίνης τῆς Ἡρακλᾶ εἰς ἣν κεκήδευνται Ἄτταλος Περείτου ὁ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆς κὲ Διογένεια κὲ Ζήνων κὲ Μελτίνη τὰ τέκνα αὐτῆς κηδευθήσεται δὲ κὲ ἡ Αὐρηλία Μελτίνη ἡ προγεγραμμένη κὲ Τυχάριον Διογένους ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ἐνταφῆναι ἢ ἐκθάψαι τινὰ τῶν κειμένων ἐπεὶ ἔσται ἀσεβὴς κὲ ἐπάρατος κὲ τυμβωρύχος κὲ προσαποτεὶσει ἱερὰς τῇ θεῷ Ἀφροδίτῃ ἀττικὰς α ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἔσται τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀπετέθη ἀντίγράφον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ Ἀτταλίδος τῆς Ἀττάλου τὸ Ϛ μηνὸς θ

Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

No commentary yet (2007)

Locations

Necropolis, North-east: 'In the cemetery' (MAMA); apparently in the same heroon as 13.105 (=MAMA 499) (so K&R) Findspot Museum

Text Constituted From

Publication; Kubitschek; Preliminary transcription (Reynolds )

History of Recording

Sarcophagus box recorded byKubitschek (KIII.18, Abklatsch 26); by the MAMA expedition; with lid, by the NYU expedition (Sarcophagus catalogue 47)

Bibliography

Published by Cormack from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 571, whence McCabe 438

Photographs

Sarcophagus (1978)

Sarcophagus and lid (1980)

Representations

Kubitschek notebook III, 18