<rs type="textType">Funerary</rs> inscription for Adrastos Polychronios

Charlotte M. Roueché and Gabriel Bodard2007

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Originally published in McCabe (1993).

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Description of Monument

A white marble sarcophagus, with two busts above the inscribed panel, now in fragments.

Description of Text

Inscribed on the front face, within a simple moulding; lines 10-11 are on the lower moulding.

Letters

0.02-0.025. Ligatures: ΜΝ l.2; ΝΜΝΗΜ l.3; ΤΗΝ l.4, 6; ΜΗ l.5, 7 (twice), 8; HN l.6, 8 (twice); NK l.7; ΗΓ l.8; ΗΡ l.8, 9; ΤΗ l.8; NN l.9

Date

First to fourth centuries A.D. (lettering)

Edition ὁ πλάτας ἐστιν Ἀδράστου τοῦ Γλύκωνος τοῦ Γλύκωνος τοῦ Λέοντος τοῦ Ἑκατόμνονος Πολυχρονίου ὅντινα πλάταν συνεχώρησεν αὐτῷ Πολυχρονία Καλλικράτου εἰς ὃν πλάταν κατεσκεύασεν μνημεῖον τὸ ἐπικείμενον τῷ πλάτᾳ σορόν τε καὶ ἰσώστας τὰς ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ τὰ λυπὰ τὰ ἐν αὐτῷ εἰς ἣν σορὸν ἔθαψα Βαρίλλαν τὴν ἐμαυτοῦ γυναῖκα βούλομαι δὲ καὶ αὐτὸς ἐν τῇ σορῷ τεθῆναι ἕτερον δὲ μηδένα ἐν δὲ τῇ ἰσώστῃ τῇ πρώτῃ ὑποκειμένῃ σορῷ ἐνταφῆναι βούλομαι τὴν γυναῖκά μου καὶ Πολυχρόνιον τὸν υἱόν μου ἐν δὲ τῇ ἑτέρᾳ ἰσώστῃ τεθῆναι βούλομαι Τατιανὸν καὶ Ἄδραστον τὰ τέκνα μου ἕτερον δὲ μήδε ἐν τῷ σορῷ μήδε ἐν ταῖς ἰσώσταις τεθῆναι εἰ δὲ τὸν ὕσπληγα οἱ κληρονόμοι μου μετὰ τὸ ἐντεθῆναί με ἐν τῇ σορῷ μὴ ἀσφαλίσωνται ἔστω μου κληρονόμος ἡ θεὰ Ἀφροδείτη τοῦτο δὲ ἐκδικήσουσιν οἱ κατὰ καιρὸν νεωπυοὶ ἐπὶ αὐτοῦ ἔστωσαν ὑπεύθυνοι ἐὰν δέ τις ΛΛΙΛΙΑΥ α διατετάγμαι ἕτερόν τιιι θάψει ἔστω ἐπάρατος καὶ προσαποτεισάτω τῷ ἱερωτάτῳ ταμείῳ δηνάρια η ὧν τὸ τρίτον μέρος ἔστω τοῦ ἐκδικήσαντος
Apparatus

Letters seen by us have been indicated.

ll. 2, 3: ΠΛΑΤΟΝ S., W.

l. 3, ΤΑΣ S, ΤΑΣΤΑΣ W

l. 4, ΕΙΣΙΝ S., ΕΙΣΕΝ W.; ΛΛΑΤΗΝ S, W;

l. 5, After μηδένα ΕΝΤΗ S., ΕΝΔΕΤΗ W.

l. 6, ΥΙΟΝ S, ΥΟΝ W

l. 8, ΟΝΤΑΙ S., ΩΝΤΑΙ W.l. 9, ΝΕΩΠΥΙΟΟΙΕΠΙ S. ΝΕΩΠΥΟΙΕΠΙ W.

ll. 10 and 11 not copied by Wood

l. 10, ΥΠΕΥΘΙΝΟΙ . ΙΣ.ΑΤΑΑΔΙΑΤΕΤΑΡΝΑΙ . ΕΤΕΒΟΝΤΙΙΟΗ . ΒΗ .ΣΤΩ Sherard

l. 11, ΗΩΗΝΤΟΤΡΙΣΤΩΤΟΥΕΚΔΙΚΗΣΑΝΤΟΣ Sherard

Translation

No translation yet (2007)

Commentary

No commentary yet (2007)

Locations

Unknown necropolis Stray: no indication. Museum (fragments)

Text Constituted From

Publications; Preliminary transcription (Reynolds).

History of Recording

Recorded in 1705 by Picenini (10102.21), whence Sherard (10101, 33); by Wood in 1750 (lines 1-9; vol. 15, 45); by Fellows, no. 41; perhaps by Bailie. K& R found 2 fragments, A. Wilhelm saw a fragment in Smyrna. At least 15 fragments found again by the NYU expedition, including 70.238, 70.312, 70.338, 71.98, 71.102, 71.103; 72.257 (several fragments).

Bibliography

Published by Boeckh, from Sherard, CIG 2824; by Fellows, no 41, whence CIG p.1115; by Cormack, Notes 15 and fig. 8; from these McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 407

Photographs

Assembled fragments (1978)
Assembled fragments, showing sculpture (1978)
Further fragment, lines 5-8 (1977)
Scu;pture fragment, with l.1 (1977)

Representations

Wood, notebook 14, p. 45