Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

1.140. Funerary formula from sarcophagus

Description: Two adjoining pieces from the central and top part of a marble column sarcophagus (together 1.90 × 0.05).

Text: Inscribed on the upper moulding of the face. The text must have begun on the lost lid, and concluded on the lost lower moulding.

Letters: 0.03.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: Temenos III, south end; tomb E

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1978) (Inv. no. 807)

Interpretive

[---]νους ὁ ἀνὴρ̣ α[ὐτ]ῆς οὐδεὶς δὲ ἕξει ἐξουσίαν ἕτερον οὐδένα ἐνθάψ[αι ---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΝΟΥΣΟΑΝΗ.Α[..]ΗΣΟΥΔΕΙΣΔΕΕΞΕΙΕΞΟΥΣΙΑΝΕΤΕΡΟΝΟΥΔΕΝΑΕΝΘΑΨ[..---]

Translation

[--- nes] her husband; and no one shall have the right to bury anyone else therein [---]

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition, 64.429, 64.430, Sarcophagus 251

Publication: IAph2007 1.140, whence Öğüş, 2018 4

Images

Fig. 1. Fragment (M. Roueché, 1978)