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Funerary inscription from a sarcophagus
Type of monument
Funerary inscription.
Location
Between Kaleköy and Karaağaç (Southern Lykaonia): in the foundations of a culvert just west of a Selcuk bridge.
Description
Whitish limestone block, broken left, possibly also right and above.
...constructed the sarcophagus from his/her own resources, for (e.g.) his/her father. And it will not be permitted for anyone else to open (the tomb) or to inter remains; otherwise, he will owe 5,000 denarii to the most sacred fisc.
Commentary
Line 1 presumably carried the name or names of the individual who set up the sarcophagus, probably for another family member (father, son, brother, husband). The term λείψανα (‘remains’) in line 5 is rather unusual in formulae of this kind (σῶμα, πτῶμα or νεκρός would be standard), and has a poetic air (MAMA VII 587; RECAM II 234, 392); cf. however MAMA VIII 327 (Akbaşyayla: Kutudelik Han, territory of Ikonion), τὸν δὲ κάτω οἶκον ἐπιδέχεσθαι ὧν ἂν διατάξωμαι λείψανα (restoration uncertain).