Description of Monument

White marble garland sarcophagus; for further description see Isik 156.

Description of Text

On the sarcophagus, l. 1 along the upper rim, ll. 2, 3 on the lower moulding (both areas damaged). The text must have begun on the lid.

Letters

Quite well designed, cut and aligned, in the second-to-fourth century style. Ligatured HN (l.1), THN (l.2). Unconventional spelling in l. 2.

Date

Perhaps the first half of the third century (lettering, spelling, nomenclature).

Edition εἰς ἣν σορὸν κηδευθήσεται Πολυδεύκης Καμησηνὸς Σαλβίου τοῦ Ὀνησίμου τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου τοῦ Ἀδράστου Σαλβίου σύντροφος αὐτοῦ εἰς δὲ τὴν ἰσώστην Αὐρηλία Μελτίνη καὶ Αὐρηλία Ἀρτεμιδώρα αἱ θρεπταὶ καὶ ἀπελεύθεραι αὐτοῦ ΙΕΙ

Apparatus

l.1, ΚΑΜΙΙΣΗΝΟΣ Reichel

l.2, the photograph suggests letters (perhaps illusory) at the beginning where Reichel shows none

l. 3, ΝΕΛΙΟΝΗ, Reichel, where C. suggested that Μελτίνη was possible, and strongly indicated either that or Μελτήνη; ΛΙ[ .. ]ΤΙΑΙ, Reichel, C. suggested θρεπταί, which seems in sufficient accord with the drawing to be accepted; at the end [κηδ]ευ[θήσονται] is likely.

Translation

{?The sarcophagus and other burial places belong to - - ? - - ], in which sarcophagus shall be placed Polydeukes ?Kamisenos (or of Kamisa) son of Salvios the son of Onesimos the son of Alexandros the son of Adrastos Salvios, his foster-brother; and in the burial-places below Aurelia ?Meltine and Aurelia Artemidora, whom he fostered and freed [?shall be buried].

Commentary

The owner's name is lost, but, since his freedwomen are Aureliae, he was himself an Aurelius. On the other hand Polydeukes, who had shared a wet-nurse with him and whose genealogy must mean that he was free-born, has no Roman nomen, for reasons beyond safe conjecture. Polydeukes' second name may be an ethnic (for Kamisa in Cappadocia, ethnic Kamisenos, see Strabo, , XII.540, 560) but the names in his genealogy are all found in Aphrodisias, Adrastos, Alexandros and Onesimos in élite as well as lower circles, the rare Salvios for an owner of a funerary space which he ceded to another (J.M.R.Cormack op. cit., no. 29). On the whole it seems likely that he was Aphrodisian.The group does not seem to be of high social status, although the owner was prosperous enough to own a complex funerary monument, provided for a friend in it, and brought up and freed two slaves.

For Salvios see 11.103, 45

Locations

Necropolis, North-east: 'On a field path south of Geyre and Eymir' (K&R) Unknown Findspot

Text Constituted From

Reichel notebook and squeeze; publication; photograph (Isik)

History of Recording

Recorded by Reichel (R.1.30, Ablatsch 42); recorded by Isik; not seen by Reynolds.

Bibliography

The text published, from R's notebook, and squeeze, by Cormack, ABSA1964, 27, no. 41, whence McCabe 529 ; the monument published by Isik and Reynolds, no. 156, with a photograph.

Representations

Reichel I, 30