Description of Monument

Two adjoining pieces of the lower part of a white marble sarcophagus; traces of figures above.

Description of Text

Inscribed in four lines on a broad lower border; the text must have begun on an upper feature.

Letters

0.025; ligatures: l. 2, ΝΜ, ΝΗ; l. 3, ΤΗ (twice), ΜΜ.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).

Edition ἐν τῇ σορῷ ἐντέθαπται Λουκία Ἀντωνιάνη σύντροφος τοῦ Θεοφίλου τεθήσεται δὲ ἐν μὲν τῇ σορῷ Θεόφιλος ὁ κατεσκευάσας τὸ ἡρῶον καὶ Λουκία Ἀντωνία Αὐρηλία Ἀρίστη Καλλίου ἡ θυγατηρ τῆς Ἀπφίας ης ἀνατεθραμμένη δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοφίλου οὐδεὶς δ' ἕτερος ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ἐνταφῆναι ἐν τῇ σορῷ ἢ ἐκθάψαι τινα τῶν ἐνταφέντων

Apparatus

l. 4, It is not clear that there is room for the final ΩΝ; perhaps an abbreviation or a continuation in another line below, now completely abraded.

Translation

[ . . . in the ] sarcophagus has been buried Lucia Antoniane who was brought up with Theophilos; there will be placed in the sarcophagus Theophilos who built the heroon, and Lucia Antonia Aurelia Ariste, (daughter) of Kallias, the daughter of Apphia [. . . .] brought up by Theophilos; no one else will have authority to bury in the sarcophagus or to exhume any of those buried in it.

Commentary

...

Locations

Unknown Necropolis, West: with the remains of a monumental tomb in the field south of the road to New Geyre, about 0.25 mile east of New Geyre. Findspot (1976)

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition (West Cemetery 4; sarcophagus catalogue 199 and 196).

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Left fragment (1975)

Left fragment (1976)

Right fragment (1976)