Four joining fragments from a large marbleblock: a. without edges (0.57 × 0.85 × 0.23); b. right edge fragment, with lower edge surviving (0.32 × 1.10 × 0.67); c. small triangular fragment, (circa0.145 × 0.18); d. left edge fragment (0.20 × 0.45 × 0.14).
Description of Text
Inscribed on one face.
Description of Letters
0.035; Β with closed lower bowl; diaeretic dots around Ι of ἱερώτατον, l. 11.
Date
second to third centuries A.D. (lettering, prosopography).
l. 1, this line must describe the objects which are not to be disposed of, i.e. the tomb and all its appertinances including probably τὴν ἐπικειμένηνσορὸν. Final letters, only the uprights visible.
l. 6, the final Σ is uncertainly read.
Translation
[...] no-one is to dispose of the tomb and its burial places and the sarcophagus lying (on it), either by surrendering it or by legal conveyance or in any other way; but in the sarcophagus there shall be placed only Publius Aelius Claudius Smaragdos Julianos and Publius Aelius Attalos his father, and if anyone should dare to bury anyone else in it, he will be (treated as) sacrilegious and accursed and will pay a penalty to the most sacred treasury of 15,000 silver denarii, as laid down by Smaragdos and [...]
Commentary
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Locations
a. Bouleuterion/Odeon, North Area, North West, Str. 1, in 1967; b. stray find in City, Village; c. Unknown; d. Bouleuterion/Odeon, West Area: W. Bou, rear of Ch. 4, Str. 3. Unknown . a+b, ?opposite Museum (1983); d. Museum (1977).
History of Recording
Recorded by the NYU expedition, a. in 1967 (67.554), b in 1983, d. in 1964 (64.359; SBI 17).