11.19. Imprecation formula from funerary text
- Description:
- White marble fragment with back but no edges, perhaps from a sarcophagus front (W. 0.49 × H. 0.16 × D. 0.095).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.02; ligatured ΜΗΝ, l. 3.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- City, Village: 'immeuble aux escaliers de marbre' (Gaudin); found during excavation of the South Agora (NYU)
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum (1977)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by K&R (K III, 42 a & b); by Gaudin (125); fragment from the right end found by the NYU expedition in 1975 (75.136).
- Bibliography:
- Published from Gaudin's squeeze by Reinach, REG 19, 1906, 283-284, no 179, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 556.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); Kubitschek; Gaudin's squeeze (grey book 6v, red book 41v); publication. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1[ἔ]στω [ἀσεβὴ]ς καὶ ἐπάρατο[ς] καὶ τυμβωρύ[χος καὶ πρ]οσαπο[τεισάτω εἰς τὸν φίσκον τοῦ]
- 2 κυρίου δηνάρια π[ε]ντ[α]κισχ[ε]ίλια ἀπὸ ὧν ἔστω τὸ τρίτον τοῦ ἐ̣γ̣δ[ι]κήσα[ντ]ος ταύτ[ης] τ[ῆς] ἐ[πι]
- 3 γραφῆς ἀπετέθη ἀντίφραφον ἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιον [ἐπὶ] στεφανηφόρου [τ]ὸ τ[ρί]τον Τίτου Φλαβί[ου] Χαι-
- 4 vacat ρέου μηνὸ[ς] Πα[?νήμου]
- 5 vacat
- 1[·]ΣΤΩ[·····]ΣΚΑΙΕΠΑΡΑΤΟ[·]ΚΑΙΤΥΜΒΩΡΥ[········]ΟΣΑΠΟ[······· ··················]
- 2ΚΥΡΙΟΥΔΗΝΑΡΙΑΠ[·]ΝΤ[·]ΚΙΣΧ[·]ΙΛΙΑΑΠΟΩΝΕΣΤΩΤΟΤΡΙΤΟΝΤΟΥ··Δ[·]ΚΗΣΑ[··]ΟΣΤΑΥΤ[··]Τ[··]Ε[··]
- 3ΓΡΑΦΗΣΑΠΕΤΕΘΗΑΝΤΙΦΡΑΦΟΝΙΣΤΟΧΡΕΟΦΥΛΑΚΙΟΝ[···]ΣΤΕΦΑΝΗΦΟΡΟΥ[·]ΟΤ[··]ΤΟΝΤΙΤΟΥΦΛΑΒΙ[··]ΧΑΙ
- 4 ΡΕΟΥΜΗΝΟ[·]ΠΑ[·····]
- 5 vacat
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ἔ
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στω
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ἀσεβὴ
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ς
καὶ
ἐπάρατο
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>
ς
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καὶ
τυμβ
ωρ
ύ
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reason="lost"
>
χος
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<supplied
reason="lost"
>
καὶ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
πρ
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οσαπο
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τεισάτω
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
εἰς
τὸν
φίσκον
τοῦ
</supplied>
<lb
n="2"
/>
κυρίου
δηνάρια
π
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reason="lost"
>
ε
</supplied>
ντ
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reason="lost"
>
α
</supplied>
κισχ
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reason="lost"
>
ε
</supplied>
ίλια
ἀπὸ
ὧν
ἔστω
τὸ
τρίτον
τοῦ
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reason="damage"
>
ἐγ
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δ
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ι
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κήσα
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reason="lost"
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ντ
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ος
ταύτ
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ης
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τ
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ῆς
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ἐ
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πι
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γραφῆς
ἀπετέθη
ἀντίφραφον
ἰς
τὸ
χρεοφυλάκιον
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reason="lost"
>
ἐπὶ
</supplied>
στεφανηφ
όρου
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reason="lost"
>
τ
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ὸ
τ
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reason="lost"
>
ρί
</supplied>
τον
Τίτου
Φλαβί
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ου
</supplied>
Χαι
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n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
<space
extent="8"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
/>
ρέου
μηνὸ
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reason="lost"
>
ς
</supplied>
Πα
<supplied
reason="lost"
cert="low"
>
νήμου
</supplied>
<lb
n="5"
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<space
extent="1"
unit="line"
dim="vertical"
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</ab>
Apparatus
Highlighted characters are those visible on the surviving fragment.
l. 2, [ἐ]γδ, Reinach.
- Translation:
- No translation yet (2007).
Commentary:
Elements from a funerary penalty formula.
Photographs:
- Fragment (1975)
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- Fragment (1977)
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Representations:
- Kubitschek III, 42
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