MAMA XI 126 (Akmoneia) 
Funerary inscription of Larcius Dionysios and Zotike
- Type of monument:
- Funerary inscription.
- Location:
- Ahat (Akmoneia): in the wall of a half-built house at the north end of the village, by the track to Banaz (Islâmköy).
- Description:
- Plain limestone block, apparently complete.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.82; W. 0.57; Th. 0.27; letters 0.020-0.030.
- Record:
- Squeeze; line drawing; MB notebook copy (1956/68).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Second or third century AD.
Λάρκιος Διονύσιος κα-
τασκευάσας τὸ μνημῖ̣-
ον ἑαυτῷ καὶ τῇ γυναικὶ̣
Ζωτικῇ ἐπεθόμην ἀράν·
5μετὰ τὸ ἀποθεωθῆναι
τοὺς δύο · ὃς ἂν ἀνύξει τὸ̣
μνημῖον, ἄωρα τέκνα
· πρόθοιτο ·
Larcius Dionysios, having constructed the memorial for himself and his wife Zotike, I laid a curse on it: after these two have been buried, whoever opens the memorial, may he lay out his children for burial before their time.
Illustrations:
Squeeze of MAMA XI 126 (Akmoneia 28: 1956-68)
Drawing of MAMA XI 126 (Akmoneia 28: 1956-68)
For ‘laying a curse’ on a tomb (line 4), compare MAMA VI 272 (Akmoneia: Susuz), lines 5-6, ἀρὰν καὶ νόμον θέμενος ὅπως μ[η]δενὶ ἐξέσται, κτλ. For the curse-formula (ἄωρα τέκνα πρόθοιτο, lines 7-8), see Robert, OMS V 719, discussing the same formula in a funerary inscription from Phrygian Diokleia (Waelkens 1986: 178-9, no. 446), and compare MAMA XI 125 (1956/66). For the use of the verb ἀποθεοῦσθαι (line 5: literally ‘deified’), see Waelkens 1984: 278, with 301 n.192, and compare e.g. IAph2007 12.908 (II AD), line 7, with Robert, Hellenica XIII, 195-6; SEG 34, 1351 (Karapınar).
For another Larcius at Akmoneia, see MAMA XI 108 (1956/63). A third Larcius is attested in an unpublished list of Akmoneian delegates to Claros in the mid-second century AD (information courtesy of J.-L. Ferrary).