13.153. Funerary inscription for Marcus A[?urelius]

Description:
White marble garland sarcophagus (W. 2.13 × H. 0.84 × D. 0.915). For further description see Isik 141.
Text:
i. along the upper rim of the chest (badly worn) continued on the upper moulding of the tabella and originally within the tabella with an overlap on either side onto the side mouldings and on the right hand side sometimes beyond that (with an awkwardly imprecise alignment), ii. within the tabella after the erasure of i from its surface. Text i may have begun on the lid.
Letters:
i. Quite well-designed and cut in the second-to-fourth-century style without any exaggerated features, 0.02; ii in a distinctive style, with oval theta, omicron and omega, for sigma, perhaps of the later third century, 0.025. Unconventional spelling in ii, ll. 2, 3.
Date:
i. Perhaps towards the middle of the third century A.D. (lettering); ii. probably second half of the third century (lettering).
Findspot:
Necropolis, North-east: in a field south of Eymir, south of the Karaçasu/Tabai road, with 13.147, 13.112 (=MAMA 553, 576)
Original Location:
Unknown: necropolis
Last recorded location:
Museum (2000)
History of discovery:
Recorded by K&R (RI.32); by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition.
Bibliography:
Published byCormack, from the MAMA records, MAMA 8. 586, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 505 (i), 437 (ii); Reynolds and Isik 141.
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds); publication. This edition Reynolds (2007).
i
1 [·· c. 15 ··] Μᾶρκος [·· c. 16 ··]ωναι [·]τρα [·· c. 4 ··]Ν [·· c. 6 ··] Α [···]Ε [·] ΟΝ [·· c. 7 ··] Ἀπολλώνιο[ς ·· ? ·· βουλ]ήσεται
3 ἕτερος δὲ οὐδεὶς
4Ε[·· c. 10 ··]Ν
5Θ[·· c. 10 ··]ΙΟ
6Τ[·· c. 10 ··]Υ
7Τ[·· c. 10 ··]Ι
8Ε[·· c. 10 ··]Ν
9Τ[·· c. 10 ··]Σ
10Τ[·· c. 10 ··]ΑΜ
11Μ[·· c. 10 ··]Ω
12Α[·· c. 10 ··]τυν-
13β[ωρύχος ·· c. 4 ··]ΑΙ
14Α[·· c. 10 ··]ΘΕ
15Α[·· c. 10 ··]Ρ
16Γ[·· c. 10 ··]Ι
ii
18 ἡ σορὸς καὶ ὁ π-
19λάτος (sic) καὶ ὁ τόπ-
20ος ἐσστὶν Αὐρ(ηλίας) Λ-
21εοντίδος θυγ-
22ατρὸς Μάρ(κου) Αὐρ(ηλίου)
23 Ἀπολλωνίου
24 τοῦ καὶ Πορφ-
25υρίου τοῦ Δι-
26ογένους
i
1[···············]ΜΑΡΚΟΣ[················]ΩΝΑΙ[·]ΤΡΑ[····]Ν[······]Α[···]Ε[·]ΟΝ[·······]ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟ[· - - - ····]ΗΣΕΤΑΙ
3ΕΤΕΡΟΣΔΕΟΥΔΕΙΣ
4Ε[··········]Ν
5Θ[··········]ΙΟ
6Τ[··········]Υ
7Τ[··········]Ι
8Ε[··········]Ν
9Τ[··········]Σ
10Τ[··········]ΑΜ
11Μ[··········]Ω
12Α[··········]ΤΥΝ
13Β[······ ····]ΑΙ
14Α[··········]ΘΕ
15Α[··········]Ρ
16Γ[··········]Ι
ii
18ΗΣΟΡΟΣΚΑΙΟΠ
19ΛΑΤΟΣ(sic)ΚΑΙΟΤΟΠ
20ΟΣΕΣΣΤΙΝΑΥΡΛ
21ΕΟΝΤΙΔΟΣΘΥΓ
22ΑΤΡΟΣΜΑΡΑΥΡ
23ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ
24ΤΟΥΚΑΙΠΟΡΦ
25ΥΡΙΟΥΤΟΥΔΙ
26ΟΓΕΝΟΥΣ
<div type="textpart_section" n="i" >
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<gap reason="lost" extent="15" unit="character" precision="circa" />
Μᾶρκος
<gap reason="lost" extent="16" unit="character" precision="circa" />
ωναι
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
τρα
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ν
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="6" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
α
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="3" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ε
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="1" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ον
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="7" unit="character" />
Ἀπολλώνιο
<supplied reason="lost" >
ς
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="unknown" unit="character" />
<supplied reason="lost" >
βουλ
</supplied>
ήσεται
<lb n="3" />
ἕτερος
δὲ
οὐδεὶς
<lb n="4" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Ε
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="10" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Ν
</orig>
<lb n="5" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Θ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="10" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ΙΟ
</orig>
<lb n="6" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Τ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="10" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Υ
</orig>
<lb n="7" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Τ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="10" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Ι
</orig>
<lb n="8" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Ε
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="10" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Ν
</orig>
<lb n="9" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Τ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="10" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Σ
</orig>
<lb n="10" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Τ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="10" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ΑΜ
</orig>
<lb n="11" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Μ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="10" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Ω
</orig>
<lb n="12" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Α
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="10" unit="character" />
τυν
<lb n="13" type="worddiv" />
β
<supplied reason="lost" >
ωρύχος
</supplied>
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ΑΙ
</orig>
<lb n="14" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Α
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="10" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
ΘΕ
</orig>
<lb n="15" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Α
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="10" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Ρ
</orig>
<lb n="16" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Γ
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="10" unit="character" />
<orig n="unresolved" >
Ι
</orig>
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart_section" n="ii" >
<ab>
<lb n="18" />
ἡ
σορὸς
καὶ
ὁ
π
<lb n="19" type="worddiv" />
λάτος
<note>
sic
</note>
καὶ
ὁ
τόπ
<lb n="20" type="worddiv" />
ος
ἐσστὶν
<expan>
<abbr>
Αὐρ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ηλίας
</supplied>
</expan>
Λ
<lb n="21" type="worddiv" />
εοντίδος
θυγ
<lb n="22" type="worddiv" />
ατρὸς
<expan>
<abbr>
Μάρ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
κου
</supplied>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Αὐρ
</abbr>
<supplied reason="abbreviation" >
ηλίου
</supplied>
</expan>
<lb n="23" />
Ἀπολλωνίου
<lb n="24" />
τοῦ
καὶ
Πορφ
<lb n="25" type="worddiv" />
υρίου
τοῦ
Δι
<lb n="26" type="worddiv" />
ογένους
</ab>
</div>

Apparatus

Throughout JMR has underdotted more letters than C. and in l.1 JMR adds added Α̣ after Marcus (raising the possibility of a Marcus Aurelius here) and at the end Λ, so [βου]λήσεται for C.'s [βουλ]ήσεται, in l.4 at the end Υ̣.

Translation:

i.- - - ?there has been (or shall be) buried in the sarcophagus Marcus A [ .. ? .. ?and those whom] Apollonios wishes. But no one [else shall have the right to bury in it, for if he does so he shall be considered] a tomb-breaker [and shall pay ?to the goddess Aphrodite ?silver denarii of which a third shall belong to the prosecutor - - -

ii: The sarcophagus and the platform and the plot (on which it stands) belong to Aurelia Leontis, daughter of Marcus Aurelius Apollonios, also called Porphyrios, the son of Diogenes.

Commentary:

It is clear that the text embodied standard provisions against misuse of the tomb (note the traces of τυνβωρύχος in ll.11-12, and probably of a fine to be paid θεᾷ Ἀφροδείτῃ in ἀργυρίου δηνάρια in ll.13-15), although the exact formulation could only be guessed.For the possibility that calculation in silver denarii points to a period of gross debasement of the coinage, see Reynolds, Epigraphic Introduction to Isik and Reynolds (see bibliography).

ii. The sarcophagus and the platform and the plot (on which it stands) belong to Aurelia Leontis, daughter of Marcus Aurelius Apollonios, also called Porphyrios, the son of Diogenes.

Photographs:

Face (2002)
 Face (2002)

Representations:

Reichel notebook I, 32
 Reichel notebook I, 32

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