Tomb Garden of Papias son of Adrastos

Dates

2nd century BC

Garden Description

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 ([t"] mnhme€ƒ periÒria [di]°[ye]to pÆxiw © é[ne]pikvlut€, nomØn ka‹ karpe€an énepikvlut€). The modest size of the allotment (less than ten m2) suggests that the productive plot was probably a garden.

Bibliography

• Monumenta Asiae Minoris Antiquae. Manchester and London, 1928-1993, VI, 83. (worldcat)
• J. Kubin'ska, Les monuments funéraires dans les inscriptions grecques de l'Asie Mineure. Warsaw, 1968, p. 145. (worldcat)

Keywords

• marble (rock)AAT:300011443
• epitaphsAAT:300028729

Places

• Attouda Pleiades: 638779
• Caria (former nation/state/empire) TGN: 7002358

Explore the places containing this garden:

• Attouda
• Asia