2.523. Funerary formula from sarcophagus

Description:
White marble garland sarcophagus W. 2.12 × H. 0.94 × D. 0.89 with a central tabella (0.49 x 0.53); for full description see Isik 101.
Text:
Inscribed on the front. a beside a bust of the dead man; b on the upper moulding of the tabella (ll. 1-2) and within it. The text clearly began on the lid.
Letters:
Neatly designed and cut, in the second-to-fourth-century style, although not perfectly aligned; 0.025; lunate ω in a.; ligatures: ΠΡ, l. 3; ΝΤ, ll. 4, 5; ΜΕ, l. 4; ΗΝ, l. 10; ΜΗΝ, l. 12; star for denarius.
Date:
Perhaps late second to early third centuries (lettering).
Findspot:
Bouleuterion/Odeon, West Area: W. Bou. Ch. 5, Str. 1.
Original Location:
Unknown
Last recorded location:
Museum
History of discovery:
Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1964 (64.235; sarc. catalogue 35)
Bibliography:
Published by Isik and Reynolds, no. 101
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds) This edition Reynolds (2007).
a
1 ζῶ
b
0[···]
1 καὶ προσαποτεισάτω τῇ
2 θεῷ Ἀφροδείτῃ (δηνάρια) ͵γ
3 καὶ προσαποτεισάτω
4 εἰς τὸ ἱερώτατον ταμεῖ-
5ον (δηνάρια) ͵Ϛ ὧν τὸ τρίτον
6 ἔσται τοῦ ἐκδικήσα[ν]-
7τος τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς
8 ἀπετέθη ἀντίγραφον
9 εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκι-
10ον ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρο[υ]
11 τὸ ια´ Ἀπολλωνίου
12Παπίου μηνὸς
13 vv. Καίσαρος vv.
a
1ΖΩ
b
0[···]
1ΚΑΙΠΡΟΣΑΠΟΤΕΙΣΑΤΩΤΗ
2ΘΕΩΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗ denarius Γ
3ΚΑΙΠΡΟΣΑΠΟΤΕΙΣΑΤΩ
4ΕΙΣΤΟΙΕΡΩΤΑΤΟΝΤΑΜΕΙ
5ΟΝ denarius ϚΩΝΤΟΤΡΙΤΟΝ
6ΕΣΤΑΙΤΟΥΕΚΔΙΚΗΣΑ[·]
7ΤΟΣΤΗΣΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΗΣ
8ΑΠΕΤΕΘΗΑΝΤΙΓΡΑΦΟΝ
9ΕΙΣΤΟΧΡΕΟΦΥΛΑΚΙ
10ΟΝΕΠΙΣΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟ[·]
11ΤΟΙΑΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ
12ΠΑΠΙΟΥΜΗΝΟΣ
13  ΚΑΙΣΑΡΟΣ  
<div type="textpart_section" n="a" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
ζῶ
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="b" >
<ab>
<lb n="0" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<lb n="1" />
καὶ
προσαποτεισάτω
τῇ
<lb n="2" />
θεῷ
Ἀφροδείτῃ
<expan>
<abbr>
<orig >
<g type="denarius" />
</orig>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
δηνάρια
</supplied>
</expan>
<num value="3000" >
γ
</num>
<lb n="3" />
καὶ
πρ
οσαποτεισάτω
<lb n="4" />
εἰς
τὸ
ἱερώτατο
ν
τ
α
με
ῖ
<lb n="5" type="worddiv" />
ον
<expan>
<abbr>
<orig >
<g type="denarius" />
</orig>
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
δηνάρια
</supplied>
</expan>
<num value="6000" >
Ϛ
</num>
ὧ
ν
τ
ὸ
τρίτον
<lb n="6" />
ἔσται
τοῦ
ἐκδικήσα
<supplied reason="lost" >
ν
</supplied>
<lb n="7" type="worddiv" />
τος
τῆς
ἐπιγραφῆς
<lb n="8" />
ἀπετέθη
ἀντίγραφον
<lb n="9" />
εἰς
τὸ
χρεοφυλάκι
<lb n="10" type="worddiv" />
ον
ἐπὶ
στεφα
νη
φόρο
<supplied reason="lost" >
υ
</supplied>
<lb n="11" />
τὸ
<num value="11" >
ια
</num>
Ἀπολλωνίου
<lb n="12" />
Παπίου
μην
ὸς
<lb n="13" />
<space extent="2" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
Καίσαρος
<space extent="2" unit="character" dim="horizontal" />
</ab>
</div>

Apparatus

l. 2, the figure is not quite certainly read.

Translation:

a: I am alive

b.[...] and in addition to pay to the goddess Aphrodite 3,000 denarii, and in addition to pay to the sacred treasury (at Rome) 6,000 denarii, of which a third shall belong to the prosecutor. A copy of the inscribed text was deposited in the Property-archive in the eleventh stephanephorate of Apollonios son of Papias in the month of Caesar.

Commentary:

This text offers a variant on the standard funerary formula which notably increases the size of the fine. The stephanephoros is not otherwise known at present.

Photographs:

Face (1978)
 Face (1978)
Face (1994)
 Face (1994)

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