Description of Monument

White marble garland sarcophagus with lid (box: 2.42 × 1.06 × 1.18; lid: 2.50 × 0.64 × 1.30). For description see Isik 171.

Description of Text

ll. 1-6 on the lid, on the lower moulding, including the two projections. ll. 7-8 on the sarcophagus, on the lower moulding. The lid has been badly damaged, with loss of the text at both sides.

Letters

Reasonably well designed, cut and aligned, in the second-to-fourth-century style, 0.0125-0.0175; ligatured ΗΝ (l.2), ΜΗ (l.4), ΜΗΝ (l.8), ΝΗ (l.4), ΝΜΕ (l.6), ΤΗ (ll.5. 7); star for denarius, slanting strokes before and after the figures in ll.5, 6. Unconventional spelling in ll.6, 8.

Date

Perhaps the mid to late third century A.D. (total size of fine).

Edition ἡ σορὸς καὶ αἱ ὑποκείμεναι εἰσῶσται δύο εἰσὶν Ἀντωνίου Ἀντιόχου καὶ Ἀντωνίας Εἰφιανάσσης γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ ἐν ᾗ σορῷ κεκήδευται Ἀντώνιος Ἀντίοχος κηδευθήσονται δὲ καὶ ἡ Εἰφιάνασσα καὶ Ἀντώνιος Ἀθη ν αγόρας ὁ υἱὸς αὐτῶν καὶ ὁ δεῖνα ὁ ἔκγονος ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ἐνθάψαι τινὰ παρὰ τοὺς προγεγραμμένους ἢ ἐκθάψαι τῶν τεθαμμένων ἢ ταφησομένων τινά ἐπεὶ ὁ τοιοῦτό τι τολμήσας ἔσται ἐπάρατος καὶ ἀσε βὴς καὶ τυμβωρύχος καὶ προσαποτεισάτω θεᾷ Ἀφροδείτῃ ἀργυρίου δηνάρια γ φ καὶ εἰς τειμὰς τῶν Σεβαστῶν ἀργυρίου δηνάρια γφ ὧν τὸ τρίτον ἔσται τοῦ ἐγδικήσαντος καὶ οὐδὲν ἧττον μενεῖ κύρια τὰ ἐπ' αὐτῇ γεγραμμένα τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Λουκίου Ἀντωνίου Κλαυδίου Διογένους Δομετείνου μηνὸς θ εἰς δὲ τὰς ἰ σώστας ἐνταφήσονται οὓς ἂν διατάξηται ἡ Εἰφιάνασσα

Apparatus

highlighted letters were seen by Reinach and/or the MAMA team, but not by Reynolds.

l. 6, ΕΠΑΝ, Reinach; ἐπ' αὐτῷ, Cormack.

Translation

[? The sarcophagus and the] burial places [? below it] belong to Antonius Antiochos and Antonia Eiphianassa [?his wife, ? in which sarcophagus is buried] Antonius Antiochos and there will also be buried Eiphianassa and Antonius Athen[agoras ? their son ? and name their grandson]; but no one else shall have the right to bury anyone (in it) except the aforenamed,[?or to remove] anyone [of those] buried or [to be buried] in it, since whoever dares such a thing will be considered accursed [and sacrilegious and a tomb]-breaker and in addition is to pay to the goddess Aphrodite 3500 silver denarii and for honours to (?statues of) [the Augusti] 3500 silver denarii, of which one third shall belong to the prosecutor; and none the less the provisions written upon it shall remain in force. A copy of the inscribed text was deposited in the property-archive in the stephanephorate of L. Antonius Claudius Diogenes Dometeinos, month 9. And in the burial places (below) shall be buried whomever Eiphianassa may ordain.

Commentary

The tomb was apparently composite, the owning family therefore of more than ordinary substance. Their nomen connects them with an élite family of the first and second centuries, but in what degree is unknown. Neither lettering nor nomenclature require a date after the late second century, and the stephanephoros could have held office in that period, although he certainly held post mortem tenures, one probably in the second half of the third century (above, no. 6, and cf. 107). Since the total size of the funerary fine is high (7000 denarii) and specification of silver denarii might suggest a time of gross debasement of the coinage (see Introduction) a date in the middle of the third century is suggested (see Introduction). For another proposal to use a funerary fine for honours to the emperors see 12.1112 (=MAMA 552).

Locations

Necropolis, North-east: 'In a field 1 km. east of the NE gate' (MAMA) Unknown necropolis Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (178); by the NYU expedition in 1973

Bibliography

Published by Reinach, from Gaudin's squeeze, REG 19, 1906, 261-262, no. 155; by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 565, whence McCabe 421 ; by Reynolds and Isik, no. 171

Photographs

Assembled (1980)

Lid, left end (1978)

Lid, right end (1978)

Lower edge, left end (1977)

Lower edge, right end (1977)