Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

1.146. Funerary fragment from Temple

Description: Fragment, probably from a sarcophagus front (w: 0.19 × h: 0.20 × d: 0.085).

Text: Inscribed within a space flanked by peltae.

Letters: 0.02-0.025. The first three lines appear to be in smaller letters than those that follow.

Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: 'Sector T.XVI'

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum (1977)

Interpretive

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Α̣[---]
Κ̣[---]
Ζ̣[---]
Ο[---]
5Μ̣[---]
+[---]
+[---]
[------]

Diplomatic

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.[---]
.[---]
.[---]
Ο[---]
5.[---]
·[---]
·[---]
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Apparatus

6: In lines 6 the surviving strokes do not seem to cohere as part of a letters.

Translation

No words discernible.

Bibliography

Transcription: New York University expedition 62.348

Publication: IAph2007 1.146.

Images

Fig. 1. Fragment (M. Roueché, 1977)