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Grave of Aegillus with Bequest to Purple-dyers (212-300 CE) Hierapolis - Phrygia


Hierapolis (Phrygia, Asia Minor — Pleiades map), 212-300 CE
IHierapP 23 = PHI 268788 = AGRW ID# 10576
Copenhagen Inventory info: 143


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Coffin (sarcophagus) in the northern necropolis (231 x 66 cm; letter height: 4.5 cm).

The grave and the land beneath it belong to Marcus Aurelius Aegillus, Marcus Aurelius Aelianus Aegillus, and Marcus Aurelius Acindunus Drakontios.  His brothers, Aelianus and Acindunus, will be buried in it.  But it is not lawful for anyone else to be buried by someone or to bury someone in it.  Now if anyone opens or takes it, that one will pay back a fine of 400 denarii to the presidency (proedria) of the purple-dyers (porphyrabapheis) or to those who are supervisors (epimelētai) that year.  He left behind a legacy, in order that the recipients might enjoy themselves each year at this tomb of mine using the interest.  The yearly interest is 144 denarii.

Translation by: Harland



ἡ σορὸς καὶ ὁ ὑπὸ αὐτὴν τόπος Μ(άρκου) Αὐ(ρηλίου) Αἰγίλλου | καὶ Μάρ(κου) Αὐ(ρηλίου) Αἰλιανοῦ Αἰγίλλου κα[ὶ] Μάρ(κου) Αὐρ(ηλίου) Ἀκινδύνοι {Ἀκινδύνου} | Δρακοντ̣ίου, ἐν ᾗ κηδευθ̣ήσ̣οντε οἱ ἀδελφοὶ | Αἰλιανὸς καὶ Ἀκίνδυνος· ἑτέρ<ῳ> δὲ οὐδενὶ ἐξέ̣στ̣αι || κηδευθῆνε ὑπό τινος ἢ κηδεῦσαι· εἴ τις δὲ | ἀποκορακώσει ἤ τε κληρονομόσῃ τι, συνενεισ|θήσει τῇ προεδρίᾳ τῶν πορφυραβάφων ἢ τοῖς | κατὰ ἔτος ἐπειμεληταῖς προστείμου ⚹ (δην.) υʹ, | ἅτινα κλῆρον κατέλειψα, ἵνα ἐκ τῶν τόκων κατὰ ἔτος οἱ κλη||ρωθέντες εὐφρανθῶσι ἐπὶ τὸ ἡρῷον μου τούτο· | γείνεται δὲ ὁ τόκος κατὰ ἔτος ⚹ (δην.) ρμδʹ.

Item added: February 15, 2013
Item modified: October 18, 2020
ID number: 10576
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