Description: Two joining fragments of the lower part of a marble sarcophagus, reused as an architrave block: w: 1.84 × h: 0.14 × d: 0.69
Text: Inscribed on the edge; re-carved in the Byzantine period.
Letters: Standard forms; 0.02-0.025
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering)
Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: North aisle
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location: Findspot
Apparatus
1: Χ apparently altered to chi-rho - probably in the Byzantine period, rather than an otherwise unattested abbreviation of χρ[εοφυλάκιον] .
English translation
Translation source: Chaniotis, 2004
[---] as is stated [in the testament ? which was made] during the seventh stephanephorate of Attalos, son of Adrastos, in the tenth month. A copy of this inscription was deposited in the registry-office [---]
English translation
Translation source: IAph2007
[ . . . a copy of this in]scription was deposited in [the property archive . . .
Bibliography
Transcription: New York University expedition in 1966, Temple 2 (part)
Publication: Part: IAph2007 1.165; Assembled: Chaniotis, 2004 30, whence SEG 54.1063.
Images
Fig. 1. Left end (M. Roueché, 1978)
Fig. 2. Right end (Reynolds, 1966)