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Neat examples of the second-to-fourth-century style, 0.0225-0.0275. Ligatured ΜΗ (l.17), ΜΗΝ (l.16), ΝΤ (l.13), ΤΗ (ll.3, 12, 13). Star for denarius. Unconventional spellings in ll.1, 4, 9, 11.
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[? The sarcophagus belongs to name and his wife, adoptive daughter of name, son] of Phoibos, natural daughter of Menandros, second of the name after Agathopous Ma[ ..c. 10 ..] and their surviving children. No one else shall bury in the sarcophagus since whoever has acted contrary to this is to be considered sacrilegious, accursed and a tomb-breaker, and furthermore is to pay to the sacred treasury (at Rome) 3000 denarii, of which one third is to belong to the prosecutor. A copy of this inscribed text was deposited in the civic archive in the eleventh stephanephorate of Attalis, daughter of Menekrates, fifth month.
αὐτῶν in ll.1-2 shows that a man and wife jointly owned the sarcophagus; the length of her genealogy might suggest a family of high social status, but does not prove it (see Introduction); too little survives of the names to show whether the family had Roman citizenship. For the stephanephoros see no. 84 (her sixteenth tenure).
Publication; notebooks; MAMA squeeze;Isik photograph.
Recorded by Kubitschek (KV.3, Abklatsch 110); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (Isik).
Published from the MAMA records, with consultation also of Kubitschek's papers,