Tomb Garden of Papias son of Adrastos

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2nd century BCE

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A marble slab found immured in a house wall at Hisarköy (Attouda) in Caria near the border with Phrygia records an epitaph set up by Papias, the son of Adrastos, grandson of Zeuxis, great grandson of Kounbarion, for himself and his heirs and sets aside a plot of unencumbered land six cubits square around it, from which it was permitted to derive revenue (τὸ μνημεῖον κατεσκεύασεν Παπίας Ἀδράστου τοῦ Ζευξίδος τοῦ Κουνβαρίωνος αὑτῷ καὶ κληρονόμοις αὐτοῦ· οὐ ἐξέσται δὲ αὐτοῖς πωλῆσαι ἢ ἐξαλλοτριῶσαι· τῷ μνημείῳ περιόρια διέθετο πήχεις ἓξ ἀνεπικωλυτί, νομήν καὶ καρπείαν ἀνεπικωλυτί, MAMA 4.83). The modest size of the allotment (less than ten m²) suggests that the productive plot was probably a garden.

Bibliography

Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiqua VI, no. 83. (worldcat)
Kubińska, J. 1968. Les monuments funéraires dans les inscriptions grecques de l’Asie Mineure. Warsaw. (worldcat)

Attouda on Gardens of the Roman Empire

Tomb Garden of Papias son of Adrastos

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