13.502. Funerary inscriptions for Tatis and Herodotos (mother and child)
- Description:
- White marble block with a narrow rebate at either side of face (W. 0.485 × H. 0.56 × D. 0.58).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face; surface to left in area between ll. 4 and 5 has been scratched but suggestion of letters on the photograph is probably misleading.
- Letters:
- 0.025 – 0.03
- Date:
- Late Hellenistic to Augustan (lettering); perhaps even second century B.C.
- Findspot:
- Necropolis, South-west: 'In a Reservoir 3 km west of the wall' (MAMA); found built into the wall of a house c. 2 km south of New Geyre, in 1976 (NYU)
- Original Location:
- Unknown, probably necropolis
- Last recorded location:
- Findspot (1976)
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the MAMA expedition; by the NYU expedition in 1976.
- Bibliography:
- Published from the MAMA records by Cormack, MAMA 8, no 533, whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 533.
- Text constituted from:
- Preliminary transcription (Reynolds); publication. This edition Roueché and Bodard (2007).
- 1Τατι Περιγένου γυ-
- 2νὴ δὲ Ἀπολλωνίου
- 2a vacat
- 3Ἡρόδοτε Ἀπολλ-
- 4ωνίου
- 4a vacat
- 5χαίρετε
- 1ΤΑΤΙΠΕΡΙΓΕΝΟΥΓΥ
- 2ΝΗΔΕΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΟΥ
- 2a vacat
- 3ΗΡΟΔΟΤΕΑΠΟΛΛ
- 4ΩΝΙΟΥ
- 4a vacat
- 5ΧΑΙΡΕΤΕ
Translation:
Tatis, daughter of Perigenes and wife of Apollonios; Herodotos son of Apollonios.
Farewell.
Commentary:
That mother and son are buried together suggests death in childbirth, but subsequent illness also remains possible.
Of the names, Tatis is one of the names of indigenous origin widely disseminated in Asia Minor (see Zgusta 1517, especially section 7, Blumeh 1992, p. 25; for this vocative, SEG 6.345, MAMA I, 159, 202; MAMA 7, 96.I.339). The other three names are Greek: Apollonios, which is quite common at Aphrodisias, Perigenes and Herodotos, which are, at present, the only examples found there.
Photographs:
- Face (1976)
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- Text (1976)
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