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

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

White marble sarcophagus lid (2.05 x 0.35 x 0.94), broken away to right.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the edge, which is interrupted by the vertical projections.

Letters

Standard forms; 0.015-0.02.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition ἡ σορὸς καὶ ὁ τόπος καθ' οὗ ἐπικεῖται ἐστιν Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἑρμογένους τοῦ Νάρδου εἰς ἣν σορὸν τέθαπται αὐτὸς αὐτοῦ ταφήσεται δὲ καὶ Τατιανὸς ὁ προγεγραμμένος τὰ τέκνα αὐτοῦ καὶ οὓς ἄν ζῶν ὁ Τατιανὸς ἢ οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ἐνθάψαι ἢ ἐκθάψαι
Translation

The sarcophagus and the place on which it is placed belongs to Marcus Aurelius Hermogenes son of Nardos, in which sarcophagus has been buried [ . . .] of him, and will be buried also the aforementioned Tatianos his children, and whomever Tatianos, in his lifetime, no-one will have authority to bury or to exhume

Commentary

The text must have continued some considerable way to the right.

Locations

Necropolis, North-east chamber tomb, 1994. Unknown Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds)

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition, in 1994 (Sarcophagus index 443a)

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Lid (1994)
Lid (1994)
Lid (1994)
Lid (1994)
Lid (1994)

94.A.22 [[missing]]

, C. 16, 17, 30, 31, E.6, 7