11.44. Funerary inscription
- Description:
- Left side fragment of a white marble tabella ansata W. 0.45 × H. 0.305 × D. 0.15 .
- Text:
- inscribed on the upper moulding (l.1) and within the panel; the surfaces are badly damaged
- Letters:
- 0.018. Ligatures: ΗΝ ll.1, 4; diaireis on second A, l.7.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- City, Village: 'Mur de la maison en face la fontaine du gymnase' (Gaudin); stray find (NYU).
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Museum
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by Gaudin (107); by the NYU expedition in 1972 (72.485)
- Bibliography:
- Published by Reinach from Gaudin, REG 19, 1906, 283, no. 178, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 478
- Text constituted from:
- Publication; Preliminary transcription (Reynolds) This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1 [···] ΤΗΝ ΥΙ̣[·· ? ··]
- 2[·· c. 5 ··] ἀρσενικὰ ΚΑ̣[·· ? ··]
- 3Λ̣[·]Τ̣[·]Κ̣ΟΥ καὶ τὸν συ[ν-·· ? ··]
- 4κ̣ο̣ς̣[···] Εὐτύχην stop καὶ̣[·· ? ··]
- 5ΘΩΝ[·] ἐ̣π̣α̣ξομαι ἕτε[ρος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει]
- 6ἐξου[σίαν] ἐνθάψαι τιν[ὰ ἤ τι μετακεινῆ]-
- 7σαι ἐπεὶ ἔστω ἀσεβὴς [·· ? ··]
- 1[···]ΤΗΝΥ·[ - - - ]
- 2[·····]ΑΡΣΕΝΙΚΑΚ·[ - - - ]
- 3·[·]·[·]·ΟΥΚΑΙΤΟΝΣΥ[·· - - - ]
- 4···[···]ΕΥΤΥΧΗΝ stop ΚΑ·[ - - - ]
- 5ΘΩΝ[·]···ΞΟΜΑΙΕΤΕ[···············]
- 6ΕΞΟΥ[····]ΕΝΘΑΨΑΙΤΙΝ[·············]
- 7ΣΑΙΕΠΕΙΕΣΤΩΑΣΕΒΗΣ[ - - - ]
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ΤΗΝ
</orig>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
Υ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
</orig>
Ι
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="5"
unit="character"
/>
ἀρσενικὰ
Κ
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Α
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Λ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Τ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
Κ
</unclear>
ΟΥ
καὶ
τὸν
συ
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ν-
</supplied>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="4"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
κος
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="3"
unit="character"
/>
Εὐτύχην
<g
type="stop"
/>
κα
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ὶ
</unclear>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
<lb
n="5"
/>
<orig
n="unresolved"
>
ΘΩΝ
</orig>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="1"
unit="character"
/>
<unclear
reason="damage"
>
ἐπα
</unclear>
ξομαι
ἕτε
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ρος
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
δὲ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
οὐδεὶς
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἕξει
</supplied>
<lb
n="6"
/>
ἐξου
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
σίαν
</supplied>
ἐνθάψαι
τιν
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ὰ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ἤ
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
τι
</supplied>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
μετακεινῆ
</supplied>
<lb
n="7"
type="worddiv"
/>
σαι
ἐπεὶ
ἔστω
ἀσεβὴς
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
dim="right"
/>
Apparatus
Reinach could see less on the left side
l. 3, Ρ[.......]ΚΑΙΤΟΝΣΥ̣[ ... Reinach
l. 4, Κ[... ] Εὐτύχην ΚΑ̣[ ... Reinach
l.5 Θ[........]ΣΟΜΑΙ ἕτε[ρος δὲ οὐδεὶς ἕξει] Reinach ? κα]θ᾿ὧν διατάξομαι ? CMR
l. 6, ἐξου[σίαν] Reinach
Translation:
[. . . ]male (children) [·· ? ··] Eutyches [ . . .] I will bring, [no-one] else [ will have] authority to bury anyone or [ . . .] may he be (deemed) impious [·· ? ··]
Commentary:
Elements from a funerary imprecation. This might be associated with the sarcophagus lid 11.54 (=MAMA 580).
Photographs:
- Face (1977)
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