Associations in the Greco-Roman World (AGRW)

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Grave with Fines Payable to a Guild (undated) Kyzikos area [Prokonessos] - Mysia and the Troad


Kyzikos area [Prokonessos] (Mysia and the Troad, Asia Minor — Pleiades map), undated
IMT 1342 = IKyzikos I 97 = PHI 288650 = AGRW ID# 7217
Copenhagen Inventory info: 1169


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Block of marble (50 x 92 cm) with a fragmentary inscription. In the Fenari Isa Mosque in Istanbul in 1980.

The grave was prepared for himself, for his most sweet . . . , and for Asklepiodotos.  Now if anyone else . . . into this memorial, he will pay . . . x denarii (?) . . . to the sacred guild of marble-workers.

Translation by: Harland



ὑπό[μνημα] | κ]α̣τεσ<κ>εύασεν {κ]ατεσσεύασεν} ἑαυτῷ καὶ τῷ γλυκυτάτ[ῳ - -] | [- - -]μά̣ῳ καὶ Ἀσκληπιοδότῳ· τοῖς δὲ λ[οιποῖς - - -] | [ ε]ἰς τοῦτο τὸ μ<ν>ημεῖον {μημεῖον}, δώσει τῇ ἱερᾷ τέχνῃ τῶν λ[ευκουργῶν] {λ[ιθοξόων?}].

Item added: December 6, 2012
Item modified: October 9, 2020
ID number: 7217
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