Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity 2004


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150. Epitaph of Vitus, also called Asterius, cursor of the phylae

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Text

ὁ τόπος ἐστὶν καὶ
ὁ πλάτας Βίτου μ̣ο̣ν̣η̣
[... c. 6 ...]ρ̣ωτικου τοῦ
Π̣ρ̣α̣υλίου τοῦ καὶ Ἀστε̣-
5 ρ̣ίου κούρσορος τῶν
σεμνοτάτων φυλῶν.
εἴ τις δ̣ὲ̣ βουλ̣ηθείη Ι̣
χωρὶς γ̣ν̣ώ̣σ̣εως ἐ-
μῆς ἐνθάψαι τινὰ
10 δώσει τῷ ἱερωτάτῳ
ταμείῳ̣ χρυσοῦ
λίτραν μίαν.

Translation

The place and the platform are (the property) of ?Vitus [son of] ...]roticus son of Praulius, also known as Asterius, cursor, of the most revered phylae; if anyone should wish, without my knowledge, to bury anyone in (here), he will give to the most sacred treasury one pound of gold.

Apparatus

l. 4: Παυλίου Roueché, ALA; Πρ̣α̣υλίου cj Feissel (1991).

Photographs

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Commentary

See discussion at IX.10; for the penalty, and its implications for the date, see IX.5.

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