Description of Monument

A fragment, which was later overcut with a carefully cut cross.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the face

Letters

Lines 1-9 0.025; lines 10-11. 0.035. Ligatures: ΤΗ ll. 3, 5 (twice), 7 (twice), 8; ΝΗ l.4; ΗΝ ll. 5, 6; ΜΗΝ, l.9; ΜΗ l.10

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition εως ἡγεμόνες ἐπεὶ ὁ παρὰ ταῦτά τι ποιήσας ἔστω ἀσεβὴς καὶ ἐπάρατος καὶ τυνβωρύχος καὶ προσαποτεισάτω εἰς τὸ ἱερώτατον Ῥωμαίων ταμεῖον ἀργυρίου δηνάρια καὶ θεᾷ Ἀφροδείτῃ ἀργυρίου δηνάρια γ ὧν τὸ τρίτον γενήσεται τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος καὶ οὐδὲν ἧττον κύρια μενεῖ τὰ ὑπὸ αὐτοῦ διατεταγμένα ἐν δὲ τῇ ὑπὸ τὴν σορὸν ἰσώστῃ κηδευθήσεται Αὐρήλιος Ζήνων ος ὁ θρεπτὸς αὐτοῦ καὶ ὃν ἂν ὁ Ζήνων βουληθῇ ἐν δὲ τῇ ἰσώστῃ κηδευθήσεται Λαεὶς ἡ θρεπτὴ αὐτῶν καὶ οὓς ἂν βουληθῶσι ταύτης τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀντίγραφον ἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου τὸ ιε Ἀτταλίδος τῆς Μενεκράτους μηνὸς Κεσαρεῶνος ν Δημητρὸς ἐριστεφανοῖό τε Ῥείης Μόϊς ἐξ ἰδίων ταῦτ' ἐπέγραψα κόπων

Apparatus

l. 10, Reinach conjectured δοῦλος ἐὼν or ἱερὸς ων Δημητρὸς

An elegant cross was later cut over the text.

Translation

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Commentary

Lines 10-11 are in verse, and in a larger hand.

Locations

Unknown Necropolis: 'Nécropole. Chapelle byzantine' (Gaudin) Findspot (1904)

Text Constituted From

Publication; Gaudin squeeze.

History of Recording

Recorded by Gaudin (60); not reported subsequently

Bibliography

Published by Reinach from Gaudin, REG 19, 1906, 267-269, no. 163, whence McCabe 464 ; discussed by Robert, AC 35, 1966, 385 and 390 note 1 (ll. 0-1).

Representations

Lines 1-10, right end: Gaudin squeeze

Lines 1-10, centre: Gaudin squeeze

Lines 1-10: Gaudin squeeze

Lines 5-11, left end: Gaudin squeeze