13.612. Funerary inscription for Lucia Antoniane
- Description:
- Two adjoining pieces of the lower part of a white marble sarcophagus; traces of figures above.
- 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).
- Findspot:
- 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.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1976)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition (West Cemetery 4; sarcophagus catalogue 199 and 196).
- Bibliography:
- Unpublished.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds). This edition Reynolds (2007).
- 0 [·· ? ·· ἐν τῇ]
- 1 σορῷ ἐντέθαπται Λουκία Ἀντωνιάν̣η σύντροφος τοῦ Θεοφίλου [τεθή]-
- 2σεται δὲ ἐν μὲν τῇ σορῷ Θεόφιλος ὁ κατεσ̣[κευά]σ̣α̣ς τὸ ἡρῶον καὶ Λουκία Ἀντωνία Αὐρη-
- 3λία Ἀρίστη Καλλίου ἡ θυγατηρ τῆς Ἀπφία[ς ···]ης ἀνατεθραμμένη δὲ ὑπὸ τοῦ Θεοφίλου οὐ-
- 4δεὶς δ' ἕτερος ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ἐνταφῆναι ἐν τῇ σορῷ ἢ ἐκθάψαι τινα τῶν ἐνταφέντ̣[?ων]
- 0[ - - - ·····]
- 1ΣΟΡΩΕΝΤΕΘΑΠΤΑΙΛΟΥΚΙΑΑΝΤΩΝΙΑ·ΗΣΥΝΤΡΟΦΟΣΤΟΥΘΕΟΦΙΛΟΥ[····]
- 2ΣΕΤΑΙΔΕΕΝΜΕΝΤΗΣΟΡΩΘΕΟΦΙΛΟΣΟΚΑΤΕ·[····]··ΣΤΟΗΡΩΟΝΚΑΙΛΟΥΚΙΑΑΝΤΩΝΙΑΑΥΡΗ
- 3ΛΙΑΑΡΙΣΤΗΚΑΛΛΙΟΥΗΘΥΓΑΤΗΡΤΗΣΑΠΦΙΑ[····]ΗΣΑΝΑΤΕΘΡΑΜΜΕΝΗΔΕΥΠΟΤΟΥΘΕΟΦΙΛΟΥΟΥ
- 4ΔΕΙΣΔ'ΕΤΕΡΟΣΕΞΕΙΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΝΕΝΤΑΦΗΝΑΙΕΝΤΗΣΟΡΩΗΕΚΘΑΨΑΙΤΙΝΑΤΩΝΕΝΤΑΦΕΝ·[··]
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:
- no comment.
Photographs:
- Left fragment (1975)
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- Left fragment (1976)
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- Right fragment (1976)
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