Hierapolis (Phrygia, Asia Minor — Pleiades map), 161-250 CE
AGRW 152 =
GRA 116 =
IJO II 196
= Miranda 1999, 131-32 (no. 23)
= SEG 46 (1996), no. 1656
= AGRW ID# 1188
This grave and the burial ground beneath it together with the base and the surrounding area belong to Publius Aelius Glykon Zeuxianos Aelianus and to Aurelia Amia, daughter of Amianos the son of Seleukos. In it he will bury himself, his wife, and his children, but no one else is permitted to be buried here. He left behind 200 denarii as grave–crowning funds to the most holy presidency of the purple–dyers (porphyrabapheis), so that it would produce from the interest enough for each to take a share in the seventh month during the festival of Unleavened Bread. Likewise he also left behind 150 denarii as grave–crowning funds to the association (synedrion) of carpet–weavers (akairodapistai), so that the revenues from the interest (10) should be distributed, half during the festival of Kalends on the eighth day of the fourth month and half during the festival of Pentecost. The copy of this inscription was stored in the archives.
Translation by: Harland
AGRW 152: Grave of Glykon from Hierapolis (from the front).
© Philip A. Harland 2012.
AGRW 152: Grave of Glykon from Hierapolis (from the side).
© Philip A. Harland 2012.
Glykon grave inscription (close-up).
© Philip A. Harland 2012
Item added: December 4, 2011
Item modified: February 8, 2016
ID number: 1188
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