Description of Monument

White marble sarcophagus 1.95 × 0.78 × 0.73; for a full description see Isik 107.

Description of Text

Inscribed in central tabella (0.31 x 0.40), ll. 1-14 within it and l. 15 on its lower moulding, and on the lower rim (ll. 18-19). The text must have begun on the lid, which is lost. The surface has become more worn than in the 1934 photograph.

Letters

0.0225 in the tabella, 0.025 on the lower rim. Reasonably good examples of the second-to-fourth-century style. Star for denarius.

Date

Middle to second half of the third century (lettering, stephanephoros).

Edition Ἐπανδίου ὁ υἱὸς αὐτῶν ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει ἐ ξουσίαν ἐνθάψαι τινὰ ἐν τῇ σορῷ ἢ ἐκθάψαι τινὰ τῶν ἐνθαμμένων ἐ πεὶ ὁ τούτων τι ποιήσας ἔστω ἀ σεβὴς καὶ ἐπά ρατος καὶ προσ αποτεισάτω εἰς τὸ ἱερώτατον ταμεῖον δηνάρια γ ἐν δὲ ταῖς ὑποκειμέναις σ εἰσώσταις ταφήσονται οὓς ἂν Ἐπάνδιος βουληθῇ ἢ διατάξηται τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀντί γραφον ἀπετέθη ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου τὸ Ϛ Λουκίου Κλαυδίου Διογένου Δομετείνου μηνὸς Λώου

Apparatus

l. 12 at end, ΑΣΩ, lapis

l. 13 beginning, ΕΙΤΟ, lapis

l. 17, τὸ ε´ C.; Α(ὔλου), C.; both suggest that the line was only partially visible at the time of reading.

l. 19, Διογένου sic.

Translation

[?The sarcophagus and the rest of the tomb belong to .. ? .. Epandios and his wife and son. In the sarcophagus shall be buried Epandios and his wife and .. ? ..] son of Epandios, their son; but no one else shall have the right to place anyone in the sarcophagus or to remove any of those placed in it, since whoever does any of these things is to be (considered) sacrilegious and accursed, and in addition is to pay to the imperial treasury 3000 denarii. In the burial places below shall be buried those whom Epandios may wish or specify. A copy of the inscribed text was deposited in the civic archive in the sixth stephanephorate of L. Claudius Diogenes Dometinos, month Loos.

Commentary

The tomb was a complex one, with the sarcophagus on top of a structure containing other burial places. Its owners were a man and wife, and perhaps their son, who was to be allowed burial in it; the man's name was (or included) Epandios (not otherwise attested at Aphrodisias).For the stephanephoros see comment on no. 6, which shows that his seventh tenure is to be dated in the second half of the third century.

See Reynolds on Isik-Reynolds 107

Locations

Necropolis, North-east, Ata Eymir: ' beside a house' (MAMA) Unknown: probably Aphrodisias necropolis Museum

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds); publication.

History of Recording

Recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (Sarcophagus catalogue 178)

Bibliography

Published from the MAMA records, J.M.R.Cormack, MAMA 8 566, whence McCabe 474 ; Reynolds & Isik 107.

Photographs

MAMA, pl. 19; 90.C.7, 8

Face (1990)

Face (1994)