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.
Commentary
For ‘laying a curse’ on a tomb (line 4), compare MAMA VI 272 (Akmoneia: Susuz), lines 5-6, ἀρὰν καὶ νόμον θέμενος ὅπως μηδενὶ 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 A third Larcius is attested in an unpublished list of Akmoneian delegates to Claros in the mid-second century AD (information courtesy of J.-L. Ferrary).