<rs type="textType" reg="funerary">Funerary</rs> inscriptions for Tatis and Herodotos (mother and child)

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

White marble block with a narrow rebate at either side of face (0.485 × 0.56 × 0.58).

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face; surface to left in area between ll. 4 and 5 has been scratched but suggestion of letters on the photograph is probably misleading.

Description of Letters

0.025 – 0.03

Date

Late Hellenistic to Augustan (lettering); perhaps even second century B.C.

Edition Τατι Περιγένου γυνὴ δὲ Ἀπολλωνίου Ἡρόδοτε Ἀπολλωνίου χαίρετε
Translation

Tatis, daughter of Perigenes and wife of Apollonios; Herodotos son of Apollonios.

Farewell.

Commentary

That mother and son are buried together suggests death in childbirth, but subsequent illness also remains possible.

Of the names, Tatis is one of the names of indigenous origin widely disseminated in Asia Minor (see Zgusta 1517, especially section 7, Blumeh 1992, p. 25; for this vocative, SEG 6.345, MAMA I, 159, 202; MAMA 7, 96.I.339). The other three names are Greek: Apollonios, which is quite common at Aphrodisias, Perigenes and Herodotos, which are, at present, the only examples found there.

Locations

Necropolis, South-west: 'In a Reservoir 3 km west of the wall' (MAMA); found built into the wall of a house c. 2 km south of New Geyre, in 1976 (NYU)Unknown, probably necropolisFindspot (1976).

History of Recording

Recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition in 1976.

Bibliography

Published from the MAMA records by Cormack, MAMA 8, no 533, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 533.

Text Constituted From

Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publication.

Photographs

Face (1976)
Text (1976)