<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> inscription for Marcus A<supplied reason="lost" cert="low">urelius</supplied>

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Originally published in Reynolds and Isik (2007).

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Description of Monument

White marble garland sarcophagus (2.13 × 0.84 × 0.915). For further description see Isik 141.

Description of Text

i. along the upper rim of the chest (badly worn) continued on the upper moulding of the tabella and originally within the tabella with an overlap on either side onto the side mouldings and on the right hand side sometimes beyond that (with an awkwardly imprecise alignment), ii. within the tabella after the erasure of i from its surface. Text i may have begun on the lid.

Letters

i. Quite well-designed and cut in the second-to-fourth-century style without any exaggerated features, 0.02; ii in a distinctive style, with oval theta, omicron and omega, for sigma, perhaps of the later third century, 0.025. Unconventional spelling in ii, ll. 2, 3.

Date

i. Perhaps towards the middle of the third century A.D. (lettering); ii. probably second half of the third century (lettering).

Edition
Μᾶρκος ωναι τρα ν α ε ον Ἀπολλώνιος βουλήσεται ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ΕΝ ΘΙΟ ΤΥ ΤΙ ΕΝ ΤΣ ΤΑΜΜΩΑτυνβωρύχος ΑΙ ΑΘΕ ΑΡ ΓΙ
ἡ σορὸς καὶ ὁ πλάτος sic καὶ ὁ τόπος ἐσστὶν Αὐρηλίας Λεοντίδος θυγατρὸς Μάρκου Αὐρηλίου Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ καὶ Πορφυρίου τοῦ Διογένους
Apparatus

Throughout JMR has underdotted more letters than C. and in l.1 JMR adds added Α after Marcus (raising the possibility of a Marcus Aurelius here) and at the end Λ, so βουλήσεται for C.'s βουλήσεται, in l.4 at the end Υ.

Translation

i.- - - ?there has been (or shall be) buried in the sarcophagus Marcus A [ .. ? .. ?and those whom] Apollonios wishes. But no one [else shall have the right to bury in it, for if he does so he shall be considered] a tomb-breaker [and shall pay ?to the goddess Aphrodite ?silver denarii of which a third shall belong to the prosecutor - - -

ii: The sarcophagus and the platform and the plot (on which it stands) belong to Aurelia Leontis, daughter of Marcus Aurelius Apollonios, also called Porphyrios, the son of Diogenes.

Commentary

It is clear that the text embodied standard provisions against misuse of the tomb (note the traces of τυνβωρύχος in ll.11-12, and probably of a fine to be paid θεᾷ Ἀφροδείτῃ in ἀργυρίου δηνάρια in ll.13-15), although the exact formulation could only be guessed.For the possibility that calculation in silver denarii points to a period of gross debasement of the coinage, see Reynolds, Epigraphic Introduction to Isik and Reynolds (see bibliography).

ii. The sarcophagus and the platform and the plot (on which it stands) belong to Aurelia Leontis, daughter of Marcus Aurelius Apollonios, also called Porphyrios, the son of Diogenes.

Locations

Necropolis, North-east: in a field south of Eymir, south of the Karaçasu/Tabai road, with 13.147, 13.112 (=MAMA 553, 576) Unknown: necropolis Museum (2000)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); publication.

History of Recording

Recorded by K&R (RI.32); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.

Bibliography

Published byCormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8. 586, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 505 (i), 437 (ii); Reynolds and Isik 141.

Photographs

Face (2002)

Representations

Reichel notebook I, 32