11.43. Funerary inscription for Meltinianos
- Description:
- Plain white marble sarcophagus (no measurements)
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- 0.025-0.03
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- City, Village: reused in a house wall
- Original Location:
- Unknown: necropolis
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition (sarc. catalogue 44)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Cormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8, no. 595, whence BE 1966:413, McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 507
- Text constituted from:
- Publication; Preliminary transcription (Roueché) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 [···]
- 2 εἰς ἣν σορὸν ταφήσομαι ἐγώ τε ὁ Μελ-
- 3τινιανὸς καὶ τὰ γνήσιά μου παιδία
- 4 εἰ δὲ ἕτερός τις βουληθείη ἐνθάψαι
- 5 τινά δώσει προστείμου τῇ θεῷ
- 6 vac. Ἀφροδείτῃ (δηνάρια) ͵ε
- 1[···]
- 2ΕΙΣΗΝΣΟΡΟΝΤΑΦΗΣΟΜΑΙΕΓΩΤΕΟΜΕΛ
- 3ΤΙΝΙΑΝΟΣΚΑΙΤΑΓΝΗΣΙΑΜΟΥΠΑΙΔΙΑ
- 4ΕΙΔΕΕΤΕΡΟΣΤΙΣΒΟΥΛΗΘΕΙΗΕΝΘΑΨΑΙ
- 5ΤΙΝΑΔΩΣΕΙΠΡΟΣΤΕΙΜΟΥΤΗΘΕΩ
- 6 ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗ denarius Ε
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εἰς
ἣν
σορὸν
ταφήσομαι
ἐγώ
τε
ὁ
Μελ
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τινιανὸς
καὶ
τὰ
γνήσιά
μου
παιδία
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n="4"
/>
εἰ
δὲ
ἕτερός
τις
βουληθείη
ἐνθάψαι
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n="5"
/>
τινά
δώσει
προστείμου
τῇ
θεῷ
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n="6"
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extent="3"
unit="character"
dim="horizontal"
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Ἀφροδείτῃ
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δηνάρια
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<num
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ε
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- Translation:
- No translation yet (2007).
- Commentary:
- No commentary yet (2007).
Photographs:
- Detail (1978)
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- View (1980)
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