Description of Monument
Upper right corner of a white marble funerary stele (0.43 x
0.47 × 0.10) in the form of an aedicula, with simply moulded
gable and plain acroteria, supported on columns with Corinthian
capitals. Within the recess is the bust of a boy in relief.
Description of Text
ii is cut on either side of the bust and is presumably the
original inscription of the monument; i is cut in irregular lettering
on the gable.
Description of Letters
i. 0.01-0.02;
square sigma and cursive omega; ii. in standard second-
or third-century lettering, 0.02-0.025.
Date
i. Third/fourth century (formulae, penalty); ii.
Second/third century (lettering)
Edition
τὸ μνημεῖον ἐστιν Εὐαρέστου τοῦ Ἀχέου εἰς ὃ
ταφήσεται τὰ παιδία μου, ἑτέρῳ
δὲ οὐκ ἔξεστι, τολμή
σας δέ τίς τινα ἐνθάψαι δώσε τῷ ἱερωτάτῳ ταμίῳ λίτραν ἀσήμου.
ἐνθάδε κεῖ ται
οσ τα βερ
νάριος ντω ν
Translation
a. The memorial belongs to Euarestos son of Acheos, in which my children will be buried, but
no-one else is allowed; anyone who dares to bury anyone in it, let
him give to the most sacred treasury a pound of pure bullion.
b. Here lies tavern-keeper
Commentary
See discussion at IX.6; for the penalty, and its implications for the date, IX.5.
Locations
Necropolis, South-west, west of the city walls. Unknown. Museum.
History of Recording
Found by the NYU expedition in 1962 (62.24).
Bibliography
Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias
in Late Antiquity no. 147. and plate xxxiv, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 476,
577. Published by Smith, Roman Portrait Statuary from Aphrodisias, Relief 5
Text Constituted From
Transcription (Reynolds, Roueché).