Description of Monument

White marble garland sarcophagus 2.23 × 1.01 × 1.09. For description see Isik 99.

Description of Text

Inscribed along the upper edge (l.1) and in the tabella and its upper and lower mouldings. The text must have begun on the lid.

Letters

Neat examples of the second-to-fourth-century style, 0.0225-0.0275. Ligatured ΜΗ (l.17), ΜΗΝ (l.16), ΝΤ (l.13), ΤΗ (ll.3, 12, 13). Star for denarius. Unconventional spellings in ll.1, 4, 9, 11.

Date

Perhaps late second to first half of the third century (lettering, spelling).

Edition τοῦ Φοίβου φύσι δὲ Μενάνδρου β τοῦ Ἀγαθόποδος Μα καὶ τὰ ἐξ αὐτῶν γεγόμενα τέκνα ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἐν τῇ σορῷ ταφήσετε ἐπὶ ὁ παρὰ ταῦτά τι ποιήσας ἔστω ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπάρατος καὶ τυμβωρύχος καὶ προσαποτεισάτω εἰς τὸ εἱερώτατον ταμεῖον δηνάρια τρισχίλια ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἔσσθω τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος ταύτης τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀντίγραφον ἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου τὸ ια Ἀτταλίδος τῆς Μενεκράτους μηνὸς πέμπτου

Translation

[? The sarcophagus belongs to name and his wife, adoptive daughter of name, son] of Phoibos, natural daughter of Menandros, second of the name after Agathopous Ma[ ..c. 10 ..] and their surviving children. No one else shall bury in the sarcophagus since whoever has acted contrary to this is to be considered sacrilegious, accursed and a tomb-breaker, and furthermore is to pay to the sacred treasury (at Rome) 3000 denarii, of which one third is to belong to the prosecutor. A copy of this inscribed text was deposited in the civic archive in the eleventh stephanephorate of Attalis, daughter of Menekrates, fifth month.

Commentary

αὐτῶν in ll.1-2 shows that a man and wife jointly owned the sarcophagus; the length of her genealogy might suggest a family of high social status, but does not prove it (see Introduction); too little survives of the names to show whether the family had Roman citizenship. For the stephanephoros see no. 84 (her sixteenth tenure).

Locations

Unknown Necropolis, North-east: in a field south of the Eymir-Tabae road, with 13.112, 13.153 (= MAMA 576, 586) Findspot

Text Constituted From

Publication; notebooks; MAMA squeeze;Isik photograph.

History of Recording

Recorded by Kubitschek (KV.3, Abklatsch 110); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (Isik).

Bibliography

Published from the MAMA records, with consultation also of Kubitschek's papers, J.M.R.Cormack, MAMA 8. 553, whence McCabe 547 ; Reynolds and Isik 99, with photograph.

Representations

Kubitschek notebook V, 3