Inscriptions of Aphrodisias 2027

1.175. Funerary text

Description: White marble fragments from a sarcophagus front, very damaged and worn, w: 0.37 × h: 0.25 × d: 0.18

Text: Inscribed on an upper moulding (line 1) and the face below.

Letters: 0.023

Date: Late second to third centuries CE (prosopography)

Findspot: Aphrodisias: Temple/Church: 'dallage du Narthex' (Gaudin)

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Findspot (1978)

Interpretive

[---]ΥΣΤΑ̣Μ̣Ε̣Ν̣ΟΥΣΘΕ[---]ΚΟ̣Υ̣Ο̣Σ̣Ε̣Ν̣Δ̣Ε̣Σ̣Ι̣Ο̣ ΣΠΙΘΕΝ[---]
Νεικόμαχος Βλάστος υἱὸς Λ[ο]υκίου Ἀντωνίου Νεικομάχου [Βλάστου καὶ --- Ἀντώ-]
νιος [c. 13] υ[ἱ]ὸς αὐτ̣οῦ προμο[ίρ]ως τελευτή[σας]
[---]ΟΥ Κλαυδίου ΣΥ[---]

Diplomatic

[---]ΥΣΤ....ΟΥΣΘΕ[---]Κ...........ΣΠΙΘΕΝ[---]
ΝΕΙΚΟΜΑΧΟΣΒΛΑΣΤΟΣΥΙΟΣΛ[.]ΥΚΙΟΥΑΝΤΩΝΙΟΥΝΕΙΚΟΜΑΧΟΥ[..........---....-]
ΝΙΟΣ[·············]Υ[.]ΟΣΑΥ.ΟΥΠΡΟΜΟ[..]ΩΣΤΕΛΕΥΤΗ[...]
[---]ΟΥΚΛΑΥΔΙΟΥΣΥ[---]

Apparatus

Underlined letters on the surviving fragment

Translation

[---] Neikomachos Blastos son of Lucius Antonius Neikomachos [? Blastos . . . ?Anto]nius [---] his son, having died prematurely [---] Claudius Su- [---].

Bibliography

Transcription: Gaudin, 1904 166; New York University expedition Sarcophagus 236, a fragment

Publication: Reinach, 1906 189 , whence McCabe, PHI, 1996 514 ; IAph2007 1.175, whence Öğüş, 2018 131, IAM 2019.229.

Images

Fig. 1. Part (M. Roueché, 1978)


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