15.5. Funerary inscription of Aurelia Dionysia
- Description:
- Three joining fragments of a white marble sarcophagus front, which was fluted, with a central tabella ansata, flanked on either side by a smoother area with curving outlines.
- Text:
- i, which is cut on the simple flat moulding along the top of the tabella, must have begun on an upper feature, and must represent all that remains of a previous inscription, erased from the tabella. ii is cut on the tabella and beyond it on the right.
- Letters:
- i, standard second to third century lettering, 0.02; ii, in a rough cursive hand, letters 0.02-0.03.
- Date:
- i: Second/third century (lettering); ii: Third/fourth century (formulae, penalty).
- Findspot:
- Old Museum.
- Original Location:
- Unknown.
- Last recorded location:
- Museum.
- History of discovery:
- Recorded by the NYU expedition; main pieces before 1980, the third fragment in 1989 (Museum 101)
- Bibliography:
- Two fragments published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no. 148 a and b whence McCabe PHI Aphrodisias 575, 436.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Roueché). This edition Roueché (2007).
- 1 ΤΑΙ αὐ̣τὴ ἢ ΤΟ̣[·· ? ··]Ι̣Ι̣Α̣Ι̣[·· ? ··]ΝΗ καὶ
- 1ἡ σορός ἐστιν καὶ ὁ ὑποκείμεν[ο]ς̣ τόπος
- 2Αὐρ̣(ηλίας) Διονυσ̣ίας̣ Στε̣φ̣άνου, ἐν ᾗ ε[ἴ] τις ἕτερ-
- 3ος̣ βουληθείη ἐνθάψαι δώσει πρ[ο]σ̣τ̣έμου Ο̣Ν
- 4ΟΛ̣Τ̣ΑΥΙ̣ τῷ ἱερῷ τῆς v.
- 5Ἀφροδείτης χρύσου οὐνκίας δύο.
- 1ΤΑΙΑ·ΤΗΗΤ·[ - - - ]····[ - - - ]ΝΗΚΑΙ
- 1ΗΣΟΡΟΣΕΣΤΙΝΚΑΙΟΥΠΟΚΕΙΜΕΝ[·]·ΤΟΠΟΣ
- 2ΑΥ·ΔΙΟΝΥ·ΙΑ·ΣΤ··ΑΝΟΥΕΝΗΕ[·]ΤΙΣΕΤΕΡ
- 3Ο·ΒΟΥΛΗΘΕΙΗΕΝΘΑΨΑΙΔΩΣΕΙΠΡ[·]··ΕΜΟΥ·Ν
- 4Ο··ΑΥ·ΤΩΙΕΡΩΤΗΣ
- 5ΑΦΡΟΔΕΙΤΗΣΧΡΥΣΟΥΟΥΝΚΙΑΣΔΥΟ
Apparatus
The left end fragment of the block was found in 1989, adding about one letter at the beginning of each line to the text published in ALA.
ii, l.1. The final sigma of ὑποκείμεν[ο]ν is written as epsilon.
The end of l.3 and the beginning of l.4 are very uncertain.
Translation:
b. The coffin and the place beneath it are (the property) of Aurelia Dionysia, daughter of Stephanos, in which (i.e. coffin) if anyone else should wish to bury (anyone) he will give (?) of a penalty to the shrine of Aphrodite two ounces of gold.
Commentary:
See discussion at ala2004 IX.7; for the penalty, and its implications for the date, see ala2004 IX.5.
Photographs:
- Left end fragment (1989)
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- Centre fragment (1981)
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- Right end fragment (1983)
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